Appeal No. 2004-0040
Application No. 09/273,820
that various databases, files and relational objects of data in
some fashion are encompassed within the teachings of the bulk of
this reference. Thus, it is clear to us and the artisan that Van
Huben encompasses plural physical design checks and/or test
vectors that are selectively chosen to be performed on circuits
as set forth at lines 1 through 3 of column 104.
Significant teachings of column 110 beginning at line 31 had
been outlined by the examiner in the answer. The teachings there
make clear that the Process/Data Manager has the capability of
selectively exempting from processing a file or group of files
and that selected files are individually marked or markable by
the file exception utility by the user in accordance with the
showing in figure 84. The examiner correctly relies upon the
following teaching at the bottom of column 110 at lines 58
through 63:
The user selects the processes that are to be exempt
for the selected files. The Control Repository process
tables are updated to list the excepted files. Each
time the Process Manager invokes a process it compares
the exception list to the files being processed. If
there’s a match, the file is excluded from the
processing list.
Taken together with the teachings of column 104 relied upon
by the examiner, as essentially argued by the examiner in the
answer, the terms files or group of files are properly
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