Appeal No. 1997-0265
Application No. 08/294,882
lead the artisan to interconnect a programmably selectable set
of said plurality of ports together through said data signal
bus and in any programmably selectable ordered sequence to
form a ring network.
Since we do not agree with the examiner’s findings as
to what the applied prior art teaches, we do not agree with
the examiner’s rejection of claim 1. Although the teachings
of Moran and Blount are additionally applied in the rejection
of some of the appealed claims, these additional teachings do
not overcome the deficiency in the basic combination discussed
above. Therefore, we do not sustain the rejection of any of
the appealed claims as formulated by the examiner.
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 1-5, 7-
14 and 16 is reversed.
REVERSED
KENNETH W. HAIRSTON )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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JERRY SMITH ) APPEALS
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