Reexamination Control No. 90/005,742
Patent 5,253,341
1 As evidence that the features of claims 9-11 and 14 which are missing from Filepp
2 represent "well known practices," the examiner cites page 23-88 of The Electronics Engineers'
3 Handbook, the twenty-nine Gale articles, De Maine, Carr, Giltner, Notenboom, and LeGall.
4 3d Action at 75-76, para. 14; Final Action at 234-35, para. 14. The discussion of the rejection
5 (3d Action at 78-79, para. 16; Final Action at 236-37, para. 16) does not explain which
6 references apply to which claim limitations. However, it is evident from a perusal of these
7 references that The Electronics Engineers' Handbook and the Gale articles are relied on for their
8 disclosures of UNIX, CISC, and RISC servers and workstations and thus are pertinent to claims
9 9, 10, and 14, whereas the remaining references (i.e., De Maine, Carr, Giltner, Notenboom, and
10 LeGall) disclose video compression techniques and thus pertain to claim 11.
11 (b) The rejection of claims 9, 10, and 14 (UNIX, RISC, and CISC limitations)
12 The examiner 's reason for citing The Electronics Engineers' Handbook and the twenty-
13 nine Gale articles, which disclose UNIX, RISC, and CISC servers and workstations, was to
14 establish a general trend in the industry:
15 UNIX based host systems or servers systems were widely used in the
16 implementation of remote host systems at the time of the filing date due to
17 platform independence and multi user capability of the UNIX operating
18 system. As to the RISC and CISC microprocessor[,] it would have been
19 obvious to replace a board CPU with a microprocessor to take advantage
20 of the scalability and the rapid increase in processing power that the
21 microprocessor had achieved[;] further it was a general trend in the
22 industry.
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