Appeal No. 1996-2481 Page 10
Application No. 07/828763
unordered queue of available physical patches. The logical
patch is remapped to the common blank physical patch in
preparation for creating a subsequent page. Col. 12, l. 63 -
col. 13, l. 12.
The examiner fails to show that Hoel teaches copying data from
one memory block to an erased memory block. The absence of
the claimed copying negates anticipation. Therefore, we
reverse the rejection of claims 11 and 12 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b). Next, we address the appellants’ arguments
regarding claims 16-18.
Claims 16-18
Regarding claims 16-18, the appellants make two
arguments. First, they argue, ”the Hoel patent does not
describe storing anything into a logical patch ....” (Appeal
Br. at 17.) The argument refers to the claimed step of
“storing a logical block number in each block ....” The rest
of the appellants’ specification does not indicate that their
invention stores a logical number in a memory block. Storing
a logical number in a memory block, moreover, appears self-
defeating to the invention’s “dereferencing of a handle,”
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