Ex parte GREENSTEIN et al. - Page 6




                 Appeal No. 1997-4116                                                                                     Page 6                        
                 Application No. 08/589,826                                                                                                             


                                            one or more addressable entities within                                                                     
                                            said first of said two or more                                                                              
                                            reconfigurable storage entities, and                                                                        
                                   d.       turning on an indicator associated with                                                                     
                                            said same relative addressable entity if                                                                    
                                            said same relative addressable entity does                                                                  
                                            not contain "fixed" data, said indicator                                                                    
                                            indicating that said same relative                                                                          
                                            addressable entity should not be used to                                                                    
                                            contain fixed data.                                                                                         
                          Besides the appellants’ admitted prior art (AAPA), the                                                                        
                 reference relied on in rejecting the claims follows:                                                                                   
                 Moore et al. (Moore)                                  4,430,727                                    Feb. 7,                             
                 1984                                                                                                                                   

                          Claims 1-3 and 5-14 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103                                                                      
                 as obvious over AAPA in view of Moore.  Rather than repeat the                                                                         
                 arguments of the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the                                                                          
                 reader to the brief  and answer for the respective details2                                                                                                    
                 thereof.                                                                                                                               


                                                                     OPINION                                                                            
                          In reaching our decision in this appeal, we considered                                                                        
                 the  subject matter on appeal and the rejection advanced by                                                                            

                          2The reply brief filed on June 10, 1997 was denied entry.                                                                     
                 (Paper No. 28 at 2.)                                                                                                                   







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