Appeal No. 95-1955
Application 08/109,982
are either good or bad." We do not see that the appellant has
made any such representation. The appellant consistently
asserted that in Nibby, the bit map is stored in a volatile
memory. (Br. at 11, line 23 and at 12, lines 3-8). Indeed, the
appellant stated (Br. at 12, lines 7-10):
Appellant places the bit map for the respective
nonvolatile memories in a portion of the respective
nonvolatile memory. Therefore, it is unnecessary to
remap the respective memories during power-up. It is
only necessary to check the previously marked memory
area designated as good.
The examiner also has not pointed to anything in Nibby and
we have not located any teaching in Nibby which reasonably
suggests doing a memory check, whether by calculating the CRC or
by any other method, only for those data stores whose first data
in the bit map are in a first rather than a second state. Each
of the appealed claims includes that feature in the form of
calculating and storing a CRC.
Hill has been relied on by the examiner in connection with
that feature of the claimed invention which requires a second
non-volatile memory containing redundant data to that stored in
the first non-volatile memory. In the manner as applied by the
examiner, Hill does not make up for the deficiencies of Nibby as
discussed above.
It should be noted that the mere fact that the prior art may
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