Appeal No. 95-1141
Application 08/068,303
Basically the appellant's invention
is directed to a photocopier system
which implements control boards for
controlling the operation of the
photocopier. The spirit of the
invention lie [sic, lies] in the fact
that information stored in one control
board can be transferred to a second
control board via unique channel(s)
present in the system. With respect to
this reference, there was such a multi-
control board system in which data was
stored in the boards (eg., see col. 16
(line 9-et seq., and line 55-et seq.)).
Since a SPARE board was present, it was
inherent that information from one board
(eg., a faulty board) was moved or
copied into the SPARE such that the
SPARE could resume the functions of the
faulty board. If this SPARE board was
to assume the duties of the old board it
inherently required all of the
information (eg., state and/or memory
image) of the prior board. Moreover,
since the SPARE was a SPARE it obviously
did not contain all the information
present in all of the boards and hence
data was required to be moved to the
SPARE. In other words, the SPARE
obviously did not contain all data of
all boards (such would require to [sic,
too] much memory and the SPARE only
replace [sic, replaces] one board at a
time, thus the other boards [sic,
board's] data in the SPARE are moot and
unneeded).
We agree with appellant's argument (Reply Brief, pages
10 and 11) that:
Federico et al's teaching of a
replacement of a control board by a
SPARE control board does not disclose
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