Appeal No. 97-0707
Application No. 08/001,474
15 increments or decrements each of the counters, according to
the value of the corresponding bit in the data” (column 12, lines
39 through 55). To be more specific, the counters in Jaeckel are
incremented when storing a binary one, and decremented when
storing a binary zero (column 2, lines 22 through 24).
The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claims 6 and 8 is
sustained because we agree with the examiner (Answer, page 7)
that Jaeckel discloses (column 12, lines 19 through 68) that “the
multiple bit binary counters receive data from a data signal path
equal in width to a number of multiple bit binary counters (see
figure 1, items 23 and 12 and C1-Cm) and output for each bit
position of information in response to a read command and
activation of the hard memory location (see also figure 1).”
The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claim 9 is reversed
because Jaeckel does not teach “partitioning said address space
such that said hyperspheres corresponding to each key address do
not overlap a hypersphere of any other key address.” The4
35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claims 10 through 12 is reversed
because these claims depend from claim 9.
The 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claims 15 and 16 is
4As indicated supra, appellant did not contest this
limitation in the arguments made for claims 1 and 13. An
argument not made is an argument that is waived.
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