Appeal No. 95-1955
Application 08/109,982
Note also that claim 12's steps (g) and (h) appear to be
duplicative to each other. The appellant or the examiner may
want to take up this matter upon return of the application to the
examining group upon termination of this appeal.
Opinion
The appellant's reply brief (Paper No. 37) was not entered
by the examiner (See Paper No. 38). Therefore, it is not a part
of the record in this appeal and has not been considered.
The rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph
We do not sustain the rejection of claims 10-12 under
35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, as being without adequate
written description support in the specification.
Claim 10 recites the step of "calculating and storing an
associated CRC for only those data stores having said respective
first data in a first state in each of said buffers of said
respective non-volatile memories wherein said CRC has a first
state representing a good data store buffer and a second state
representing a bad data store buffer." Essentially the same
feature is recited in claims 11 and 12 as well. The acronym
"CRC" is defined on page 8 of the specification and it means
"cyclic redundancy code."
According to the claimed invention, the CRC is not
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