Ex Parte Santos et al - Page 11

            Appeal 2007-1595                                                                                 
            Application 09/751,858                                                                           

        1   Susan S. Baum and Cheryl M. O’Donnell, An Approach to Modeling Labor and                         
        2   Machine Down Time in Semiconductor Fabrication, Proceedings Of The 23rd                          
        3   Conference On Winter Simulation, Phoenix, Arizona, ISBN:0-7803-0181-1, Pp.                       
        4   448 - 54 , 1991 (Baum)                                                                           
        5   Alan Dix and Geoffrey Ellis, Starting Simple – Adding Value to Static                            
        6   Visualisation Through Simple Interaction, Proceedings Of The Working                             
        7   Conference On Advanced Visual Interfaces, L'Aquila, Italy, Pp. 124 - 34 , 1998                   
        8   (Dix)                                                                                            
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       10       We enter a new ground of rejection of claims 1-21 and 27 under 35 U.S.C.                     
       11   § 103(a) as obvious over Baum, Jensen, and Dix.                                                  
       12                                                                                                    
       13                       ADDITIONAL FINDINGS OF FACT (FF)                                             
       14       We make the following additional enumerated findings of fact, which are                      
       15   supported by at least a preponderance of the evidence.                                           
       16       Baum                                                                                         
       17       11. Baum describes an approach to modeling labor resources, and                              
       18              emphasizes techniques for modeling equipment breakdowns (Baum,                        
       19              p. 448).                                                                              
       20       12. Baum portrays a chart that analyzes machine uptime against the                           
       21              frequency of that uptime (Baum, Fig. 6, p. 452).                                      
       22       13. Baum’s analysis regards scheduled and unscheduled downtime and                           
       23              relates the analysis to mean-time-between-failures and mean-time-to-                  
       24              repair (Baum 449).                                                                    
       25       14. Time between failures is the time gap between the events of a machine                    
       26              beginning operation and its subsequent failure.  Mean-time-between-                   
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