Appeal 2007-1240
Application 09/733,596
Dole teaches that engineers use the work stations to do their design work
(Finding No. 9). The mirrored design server is geographically remote from
the primary design server (Finding No. 10), and in the absence of a detailed
description in Dole we presume that similar design work occurs at the work
stations connected to the mirrored design server.
Because Dole does not specify a server (or servers) to perform
verification (Finding No. 12), and does not exclude the primary design
server as the server to perform verification (Finding No. 13), we conclude
that the Examiner erred in stating that the Dole reference teaches data file
validation by a secondary server prior to release of the file to a primary
server, as recited in claim 1.
For the reasons discussed supra, we also do not agree with the
Examiner that Dole teaches validating a data file at a secondary server in
each one of a plurality of networks, said plurality communicating with a
single primary server, as recited in claims 6 and 11.
CONCLUSION OF LAW
We conclude that the Examiner erred in rejecting claims 1-16. The
rejection of claims 1-16 is reversed.
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