Appeal No. 2000-0720
Application No. 08/648,849
are set forth in the final rejection and the examiner’s answer
(Paper Nos. 8 and 15, respectively) and the appellants’ brief
and reply brief (Paper Nos. 13 and 16, respectively).
Appellants’ Invention
A summary of the invention is provided at page 7 of
the brief.
The Rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)
Claim 19
We will not sustain this rejection.
Appellants argue that when data is filtered, Fisher
provides no teaching or suggestion to select a set of
coefficients from a plurality of sets of coefficients based on
previous data patterns transmitted through the equalizer.
We agree. With respect to Figure 2 of Fisher, which is
relied on by the examiner, it is clear that filter unit 36
receives equalizer coefficients W for decreasing data error
rates of data output signals from memory. However, Fisher has
not been shown by the examiner to involve the selection of a
set of coefficients from a plurality of sets of coefficients.
The examiner relied on Fisher’s specification at column 7,
lines 10-16 and 34-44, to meet the claim language “selecting a
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