Appeal No. 1997-2984 Page 3
Application No. 08/259,967
locally producing, in one or more receiving units,
first and second local power supply potentials from
said first and second functional signals; and
powering said receiving unit exclusively from said
first and second local power supply potentials.
The prior art applied by the examiner in rejecting the
claims follows:
Wilson 4,901,217 Feb. 13, 1990.
Claims 26-28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as
anticipated by Wilson. Rather than reiterate the arguments of
the appellants or examiner in toto, we refer the reader to the
briefs and answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
After considering the record, we are persuaded that the
examiner erred in rejecting claims 26-28. Accordingly, we
reverse. We begin by summarizing the examiner's rejection and
the appellants' argument.
The examiner asserts, "Wilson discloses that the two signal
lines are complementary, one must be data while the other is the
clock. These signals did not start out complementary so one of
them must have been inverted to make them complementary."
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