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                  Appeal No. 2004-0538                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 09/976,495                                                                                                              

                  memory…” we find this limitation to be ambiguous as it does not identify if the antecedent                                              
                  memory is the memory associated with the first of second system control unit.  The                                                      
                  examiner and applicant should take appropriate action to eliminate this ambiguity in claim                                              
                  4.                                                                                                                                      
                           For the forgoing reasons, we reverse the examiner’s rejection of Claim 1 under   35                                            
                  U.S.C. § 102 as being anticipated by AAPA and the examiner’s rejection of Claims 2                                                      
                  through 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over AAPA in view of either Hagersten                                                  
                  or James.                                                                                                                               
                                     REVERSED                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                         
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