Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
may exist in the
design. A layout
display and query
tool called
ChipViewer shows
the relationship of
simulation results to
the power network
layout.
RailMill PB at 4.
The Second Ho Declaration, on the other hand, appears to treat ChipViewer as
separate from “RailMill,” explaining that the integrated combination of RailMill and
ChipViewer was released as Archer’s “Arcadia” product:
2. The invention that became the ‘952 patent was conceived and
reduced to practice in the United States while my co-inventor and I were
employed by Epic Design Technology. As part of reducing to practice the
invention of the ‘952 Patent, my work was directed to combining an
interactive graphical user interface with power network analysis tools then
being developed primarily by my co-inventor. Moreover as part of this
reduction to practice, Epic Design Technology, in collaboration with Archer
Systems, integrated Epic’s RailMill product with the graphical user
interface known as ChipViewer. The RailMill product with the graphical
user interface referred to as ChipViewer was then released as the Arcadia
product. The RailMill and ChipViewer parts of Arcadia are therefore our
own reduction to practice of the invention conceived by my co-inventor
and I as claimed in the ‘952 Patent.
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