Appeal No. 2005-2512
Reexamination Control No. 90/006,431
K. The rejection of claims 1-6, 9, and 16-18 under § 103(a) for
obviousness over Stark in view of the Arcadia Manual (excluding
RailMill and associated use of ChipViewer), Tiwary, or Deng
Appellant does not deny that Stark satisfies all of the limitations of the
independent claims as they stood prior to being amended to specify that the recited
“display” displays “a graphical user interface including interactive tools for viewing
selected portions of said power net.”29 The examiner contends it would have been
obvious in view of the Arcadia Manual, Tiwary, or Deng to use a graphical user interface
to display the results of Stark’s power net simulation. Fin.Act. 20 paras. 27 29, 30, 32,
33. As explained above, we are considering the Arcadia Manual only to the extent it
does not disclose RailMill and the use of ChipViewer to display the RailMill outputs.
29 The examiner’s explanation of how claim 17 prior to amendment reads on
Stark appears at pages 26-28 of the Final Office Action.
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