Appeal No. 1998-0714
Application No. 08/092,622
reduced each year as the cost and technology change.
Nonetheless, Kobayashi discloses (column 7, lines 59-63) that
the central elements of the PPM could be incorporated in a
module that is 9.06" long, 5.12" wide, and 0.91" high, which
is sized and shaped so that the housing could be physically
mounted in a disk drive slot. Thus, Kobayashi meets all of
the limitations of claim 1 with Blackborow being merely
cumulative. Although the rejection is based on Kobayashi in
view of Blackborow, it is permissible to affirm the rejection
relying on only Kobayashi. See In re Bush, 296 F.2d 491, 496,
131 USPQ 263, 266-67 (CCPA 1961). Accordingly, we will affirm
the rejection of claim 1 and of claim 2, grouped therewith.
As to the second group of claims, representative claim 3
requires that the second means for interfacing "allows
communications from one central processing unit to a second
central processing unit." As stated above, Kobayashi includes
a single central processing unit and precludes adding a second
central processing unit. Therefore, the combination fails to
meet the claim limitation. Accordingly, we cannot sustain the
rejection of claim 3 nor of the claims grouped therewith,
claims 4 through 8.
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