Appeal No. 2002-1894
Application No. 09/195,870
aforementioned teaching in Fabbio does not disclose maintaining in a table the identity of
an entry that holds the directory object’s ACL and an entry that holds the directory
object’s owner information. Indeed, the disclosure in Fabbio is directed to the ACL, and
there is no logical reason why the teaching in Fabbio would include such disclosure, as
this teaching is directed to the ACL itself and there is no rationale for the ACL to hold
the identity of an entry that holds itself. Likewise, there is no reason for Fabbio to teach
using information in the ACL to identify ACL information, because that requires
accessing the ACL in the first instance.
We agree with appellants’ arguments. In Fabbio, the ACL, as opposed to a table,
maintains the owner information (Figure 4; column 7, lines 41 through 43). Even if we assume
for the sake of argument that it would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
modify the teachings of Bsaibes with those of Fabbio, the user of the modified system teachings
of Bsaibes would have to look to the ACL, as opposed to a table, for owner information (final
rejection, page 3). As argued by appellants (brief, page 9), “there is no rationale for the ACL to
hold the identity of an entry that holds itself.”
In view of the foregoing, the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 29 is reversed.
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