Appeal No. 2002-2297
Application No. 08/980,585
of complying with the burden of presenting a prima facie case of
obviousness. Note In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d 1443, 1445, 24 USPQ2d
1443, 1444 (Fed. Cir. 1992).
With respect to the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) rejection
of appealed independent claims 1, 5, and 11, Appellants assert
that the Examiner has failed to establish a prima facie case of
obviousness since all of the claimed limitations are not taught
or suggested by the applied Abraham reference. In particular,
Appellants contend (Brief, pages 13 and 14) that the Examiner has
not pointed to anything in the disclosure of Abraham that would
correspond to the presently claimed logging modules which are
designated by a system administrator to selectively log data in
accordance with independent criteria.
After reviewing the arguments of record from Appellants and
the Examiner, we are in general agreement with Appellants’
position as stated in the Briefs. Our interpretation of the
disclosure of Abraham coincides with that of Appellants, i.e., we
find no basis for the Examiner’s conclusion that the database
tables illustrated in Abraham’s Figures 9A-9D and 25A-25B
correspond to the claimed logging modules. As asserted by
Appellants, there is no indication in the disclosure of Abraham
that these database tables are designated by an administrator to
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