Appeal No. 2004-0434
Application No. 09/836,686
(5) Berstis teaches in column 3, at lines 14-24, copy control
information including a count of the number of permitted
copies.
(6) Berstis teaches in column 6, at lines 59-61, the digital file
and part of its copy control information, are transferred
between the source device and target device.
(7) Berstis teaches in column 9, at lines 14-15, there may be
another digital file storage device before the source device
in the file transfer string, "[i]f the file is not present at
the source, it may be necessary to obtain it."
(8) Berstis teaches a similar multi-stage transfer to (7) above
at figure 4, items 44 and 40 (which comprises items 24 and
26), as discussed in part at column 7, line 64, to column 8,
line 35.
(9) Berstis teaches in column 5, at lines 29-31, "copies are
controlled throughout the systems and networks until their
final rendering place."
(10) Berstis teaches in column 8, at lines 21-26, and column 9,
at lines 45-62, client 40 tracks the current count and
periodically reports to the management server.
Appellant's argument that, "there is no teaching or
suggestion to send a transfer count from a first portable device
to a second portable device" is not persuasive. As listed above,
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