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                Appeal 2006-2685                                                                                
                Application 09/801,614                                                                          

                of the compromised data and reloading the backup file or the compromised                        
                data may be transmitted with an error message.                                                  
                       Thus, the disclosures of Schneck and Groshon fall short of teaching or                   
                suggesting that the requested data is destroyed and a backup file is reloaded                   
                for each destroyed file if the request for data is unauthorized.  We also note                  
                that the other independent claims require similar determination and                             
                destruction of unauthorized requests and reloading of the backup files which                    
                are neither taught nor suggested by the proposed combination of the                             
                references.  Accordingly, as the Examiner has failed to set forth a prima                       
                facie case of obviousness with respect to any of the independent claims, we                     
                cannot sustain the 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of claims 1, 5, 7, 10, 14, 17, 21,                 
                25, and 27, nor of their dependent claims 4, 13, 20, 24, and 30, over Schneck                   
                and Groshon.                                                                                    
                                                   CONCLUSION                                                   
                       In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner rejecting                         
                claims 1, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, and 30 under 35 U.S.C.                   
                § 103 is reversed.                                                                              

                                                 REVERSED                                                       

                tdl/ce                                                                                          
                International Business Machines Corporation                                                     
                Intellectual Property Law Department                                                            

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