The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board Paper No. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte CHRISTOPHER J. WEST and DAVID A. SERIS ______________ Appeal No. 2004-2227 Application 09/726,868 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before THOMAS, RUGGIERO and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-8, 10-24 and 26-35. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below: 1. A storage system comprising: a target storage device storing old data, the target storage device operable for receiving first delta difference data indicative of thePage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007