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`TO: JAYPRAKASH N. GANDHl
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`RE: RESPONSE TO FINAL OFFICE
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`AM&NDMENTUNDER37C.F.R.§1.116
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`PATENT
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`IN TIIB UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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`In re Application of:
`GUSTAVO MATA ET AL.
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`Serial No.: 10/135,145
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`Filed: 4/30/2002
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`For: AGENT REACTIVE SCHEDULING IN
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`Group Art Unit: 2125
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`Examiner: JA YPRAKASH N. GANDHI
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`Atty. Dkt. No.: 2000.079600/JAP
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`AMENDMENT UNDER 37 C.F.R. § 1.116;
`RESPONSE TO FINAL OFFICE ACTION DATED JUNE lS. 2004
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`Commissioner for Patents
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`Sir:
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`CERTIFICATE OF TRANSMISSION UNDER 37CFR1.8
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`I hereby certify that this correspondence is being faeslmile transmitted
`to the United States Patel'lt and Trademark Office on August 6. 2004.
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`Applicants respectfully request that the following amendments be entered in
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`captioned patent application in accordance with 37 C.F.R. § 1.116. Applicants submit the
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`foregoing amendments to place the case in even better condition for allowance or appeal.
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`Tills paper is submitted in response to the final Office Action dated Jwie 15. 2004 for
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`which the three-month date for response is September 15, 2004. It is believed that no fee is due;
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`however, should any fees under 37 C.F.R. §§ 1.16 to 1.21 be required for any reason relating to
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`this document, the Director is authorized to deduct said fees from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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`Deposit Account No. 01-0365/TT4739.
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`Reconsideration of the application in view of the following amendments and remarks is
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`respectfully requested.
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`REMARKS
`Applicants note that the final Office Action essentially reiterates the rejection&
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`first made in the Office Action dated January 16, 2004, to which Applicants timely
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`responded on April 14, 2004. Accordingly, Applicants maintain their position set forth in
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`the April 14Ui response, and hereby incorporate them verbatim by reference as if they
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`were fully set forth herein.
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`In response to the arguments supporting Applicants' position, the Office offered
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`the unsupported statement that:
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`... Applicant's definition of the term "&ofhwl.re scheduling
`agent" is very broad and can be interpreted as any body
`involving in scbedllling can be considered as an software
`scheduling agent, because method. medium, system,
`apparatus and manufacturing are claimed and NOT
`software programming and therefore Parad (:figure 1,
`elements 105 - 108) meets all the claimed invention."
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`Final Office Action, Detailed Action, p. 3, 1f 2. Applicants remind the Office of the duty
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`to make the prima facie case with particularity, Ex parte Levy, 17 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA)
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`1461, 1462 (Pat. & Tm. Of£ Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1990) (identify each element of the
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`claimed invention in the prior art); Ex parte Skin11er, 2 U.S.P .Q.2d (BNA) 1788, 1788-89
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`(Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1987) (provide reasoning supporting inberency allegation), which
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`this statement fatally lacks.
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`In particular, Applicants request clarification as to the disclosure supporting the
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`Office's allegation of the breadth of the supposed defmition for "software scheduling
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`agent." Applicants respectfully submit that there is no support for such a broad
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`defu:tltion.
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`For instance, there is no support in Applicants' specification for the
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`proposition that a scheduling agent represent more than one manufacturing domain entity
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`at any given time or that a scheduling agent be implemented in anything other than
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`software.
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`Thus. there is no support for a definition of the term "software scheduling agent"
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`in which an entity represents, for instance, a whole subsystem comprising large numbers
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`of manufacturing domain entities. Nor is there any support for the prospect that a
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`scheduling agent be implemented in, for instance, hardware. Note that the claims in issue
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`actnally recite a software scheduling agent, as is conceded by placing the tenn "software
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`scheduling agent'' in quotations. The passage quoted above is therefore erroneous on its
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`face. However much the Office 11light wish to the contrary, the statement that any
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`software entity that schedules constitutes a software scheduling agent is clearly wrong.
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`Furthermore, although not clear from the quoted passage, it appears to Applicant
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`that the Office may be taking the position that the software aspect of the scheduling agent
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`is immaterial because "software programming" is not claimed. The Office apparently
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`makes this argument to obviate Applicant's inherency argwnent with respect to Parad.
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`Applicant requests authority for the proposition that the Office can simply ignore
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`limitations in the claims at its whim. Each of the claims expressly recites a "software
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`scheduling a.gent", and each of those limitations m\lSl be disclosed in the prior art as
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`required by In re Bond. 15 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1566, 1567 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (anticipating
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`reference must disclose every limitation of the rejected claim in the same relationship to
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`one another as set forth in the claim).
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`Applicants also note that, for tbe first time, the Office has attempted to identify
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`something it associates with "software scheduling agents" in Parad. Final Office Action.
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`Detailed Action, p. 3, ~ 2. The Office identifies elements 105 - 108 in Figure 1.
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`Applicants note that Figure 1 is a flowchart of a method (Parad, col. 5, I. 66-67), and
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`elements 105 -108, which are functionalities of some aspect of Parad's system (col. 9, 1.
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`19-33). However, as Applicants earlier noted:
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`Parad expressly states at col. 7, lines 53-54 that '•[t]he present invention
`may be implemented in any combination of software, fim1ware, or
`hardware . ... " Thus, even if the Office can identify some functionality, or
`collection of functionalities, corresponding to· that of Applicants' claimed
`"software scheduling agent," such functionality need not necessarily be
`implemented in software. Parad's own disclosure establishes that such
`functionality could be implemented in, for example. hardware, as opposed
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`Response·to Office Action Dated January 16, 2004, p. 4. Thus, the disclosure of
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`the elements 105 ~ 108 to which the Office :finally pain.ts fails to inherently disclose a
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`"software scheduling agent." In re Oelrich, 212 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 323, 326 (C.C.P.A.
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`1981); Ex parte LeloY, 17 U.S.P.Q.2d {BNA) 1461, 1463-1464 (Pat. & Tm. Off. Bd. Pat.
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`App. & Int. 1990); Ex parle Skinner, 2 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1788, 1789 (Bd. Pat. App. &
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`Int 1987).
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`The Examiner is invited to contact the \mdersigned attorney at (713) 934-4053
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`with any questions, comments or suggestions relating to the referenced patent application.
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`Respectfully submitted, ~
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`Re . o. 34,90
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`Attorney for Applicants
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`WILLIAMS, MORGAN & AMERSON
`CUSTOMER NUMBER: 23720
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`10333 Richmond Dr., Suite 1100
`Houston, Texas 77042
`(713) 934-7000
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`Date: August 6, 2004
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