Appeal No. 2002-2297
Application No. 08/980,585
perform logging according to independent criteria or, for that
matter, perform any logging function at all.
We recognize that the Examiner (Answer, pages 4 and 11) has
clarified the stated position concerning the alleged
correspondence of Abraham’s disclosure to the claimed logging
modules by calling attention to the “logging threads” discussed
at columns 46 and 47 in Abraham and illustrated in Figure 23. In
our view, the Examiner at this point has correctly recognized
that it is the filter engine 78 in Abraham which is performing a
logging function. We fail to see, however, where the Examiner
has established any support for the conclusion that Abraham’s
“logging threads” are logging modules which are designated by a
system administrator to perform logging according to selected
independent criteria, features which are present in each of the
independent claims 1, 5, and 11. As asserted by Appellants
(Reply Brief, page 2), from the disclosure of Abraham, the
“logging threads” appear to be nothing more than transactions or
messages which are started by filter executive 76 and which are
common to any multi-threaded operating system.
In view of the above discussion, it is our view that even
assuming, arguendo, that proper motivation existed for the
artisan to modify the disclosure of Abraham in the manner
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