Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 animated sequence data representing feature film video – col. 7, ll. 34-36), even though such AV
2 data is not required by the claims35 or by the examiner’s proposed combinations of reference
3 teachings. An example is the following discussion of cache memory, which is not recited in the
4 claims:
5 10. Workstations, and in particular, RISC workstations, at the time
6 of the Rozmanith [‘341] application were notorious for their sensitivity to
7 specific programs being executed, with huge performance degredation to
8 be expected if applications did not fit into the relatively small cache
9 memories of the day. Cache memory technology required very fast static
10 RAM chips that were expensive, in short supply, and very difficult to get
11 to work robustly. Similarly, CISC (Intel 80386 computers) usually had no
12 caches, while the 80486 had a small on-chip cache. In contrast,
13 mainframes could afford sizeable amounts of high-speed memory and
14 cache to speed processing. Worse, AV applications are, in fact, well-
15 known to have poor performance for small cache sizes due to the high
16 amount of data moved through the system in real time, making use of a
17 microprocessor based RISC or CISC server highly suspect.
18
19 1st Koopman Decl. at 5, para. 10 (emphasis added). See also id. at 6, para. 11 (asserting that the
20 references cited by the examiner "do not demonstrate that utilizing either a RISC or CISC (i.e.,
21 Intel's then-existing 80x86-based processor) would have been feasible for the instant
22 application") (emphasis added). In addition, Dr. Koopman's testimony about the individual
23 references is frequently limited to the specific passages cited by the examiner rather than
24 addressing the reference as a whole.
35 The closest the claims come to reciting such AV data is the recitation of "an animation
sequence" in claim 96, which does not specify that it represents feature film video.
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