Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
remove the Arcadia Manual as prior art to the extent it discloses the RailMill power net
simulation engine and associated transistor network simulation engine and the use of
ChipViewer to display the RailMill output information.24
Regarding the fact that Arcadia Manual was issued by Archer rather than by
Epic, which issued the RailMill documents, that circumstance is adequately explained by
Ho’s testimony that “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
24 As noted earlier, Ho testified:
4. The actual authors of the Arcadia User Manual attached hereto
as Exhibit A, by Archer Systems, Inc., are not known to me. However, to
the extent that the document refers to RailMill and the use of ChipViewer
to display the outputs from RailMill, it describes our own implementation of
the invention.
Second Ho Decl. para. 4
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