The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 13 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte SHAH MOHAMMED REZAUL ISLAM, VIKRAM HARAKERE KRISHNAMURTHY, and PRASENJIT SARKAR ____________ Appeal No. 2003-1603 Application No. 09/376,832 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before KRASS, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 6 through 8. Claims 1 through 5 and 12 through 16 have been indicated as being allowed, and claims 9 through 11 have been objected to as being dependent upon rejected base claims. Appellants' invention relates to a computer system with plural storage volumes wherein a snapshot module invokes a snapshot relationship between the volumes such that read and write requests can be made to any volumes in the relationship.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007