Appeal No. 2006-1704
Application No. 10/640,544
one or more recipes. At run time of a control process, a recipe
is retrieved from a database, wherein the recipe contains the
class structures, and the class structures are resolved for
actual materials to be used in the recipe.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An automation system for batch processing, comprising:
at least one material class that describes one or more
components of a recipe, the recipe manufactured by an industrial
control system having associated automation components; and
a processor to execute the recipe, the processor facilitates
a recipe component determination with respect to the material
class in order to manufacture the recipe wherein the at least one
material class is resolved to determine the actual materials
employed to manufacture the recipe.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Saucier et al. (Saucier) US2003/0139936 July 24, 2003
(filed Jan. 21, 2002)
Claims 1-25 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being
anticipated by the disclosure of Saucier.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellant or the
examiner, we make reference to the briefs and the answer for the
respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal,
the rejection advanced by the examiner and the evidence of
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