Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
date to the RailMill documents.25 That patent, which appellant correctly notes refers to
ARCADIA at column 4, line 13, and to ChipViewer in numerous places, Br. 24, makes
no mention of RailMill or voltage drop simulations yet discusses ChipViewer’s zoom
feature at column 4, lines 59-60.
For the foregoing reasons, we hold that the Arcadia Manual is available as prior
art under 35 U.S.C. § 102(a) with respect to appellant’s claims to the extent it discloses
using ChipViewer as a graphical user interface for circuit analysis simulators other than
RailMill, such as PowerMill, and more particularly for its disclosure that ChipViewer as
used with those other simulators permits the display the characteristics of selected
portions of the circuitry.
25 Neither of the inventors of the ‘952 patent under reexamination is named as
an inventor in the ‘580 patent, which is assigned to Epic.
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