Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
ChipViewer was then released as the Arcadia product.” Second Ho Decl. para. 2.
Kroger is inapposite because the Arcadia Manual does not contradict Ho’s testimony
that he and Tuan invented RailMill and the use of ChipViewer to display the RailMill
outputs.
Our holding that Ho’s testimony is sufficient to remove the Arcadia Manual only
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 means that the Arcadia Manual is still prior art under § 102(a) in all
other respects, including its disclosure of using ChipViewer with simulators other than
RailMill, namely, SPICE, PowerMill, and TimeMill. Because Ho’s declaration fails to
explain which display features of ChipViewer, if any, were invented by him and Tuan in
order to display the RailMill outputs, we must assume that they not invent any of the
following ChipViewer features described at page 1-3 and reproduced below, which are
not described therein as limited to RailMill:
· Graphical point-and-click operation
· Visual navigation through the layout to explore any area of the chip layout
· Full zoom and pan capability
· Numerical evaluation of the details of a selected net by extracting accurate
interconnect model parameters
· Analyze model parameters using a time domain simulator
Arcadia Manual at p. 1-3 (emphasis added). Treating these ChipViewer display
features as not limited to RailMill is also consistent with the ‘580 patent, filed November
8, 1994, on which (as noted above) the examiner unsuccessfully relied to attribute that
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