Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
said on-chip condition sensor to assume a selected
one of a plurality of sensing configurations.
The references relied on by the examiner are as
follows:
d’Angeac et al. (d’Angeac) 4,597,042 June 24, 1986
Poret et al. (Poret) 4,674,089 June 16, 1987
Hester et al. (Hester) 4,788,683 Nov. 29, 1988
Rodnay Zaks and Alexander Wolfe (Zaks), From Chips to Systems:
An Introduction to Microcomputers, (1987).
We note that the Examiner has maintained the
following rejections: claims 2, 11 through 15, 17 and 55 under
35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being unpatentable over Hester; claims
3, 23 through 26 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hester and Poret; claims 4, 5 and 16 under 35 U.S.C. §
103 as being unpatentable over Hester and Zaks; and claims 6
through 10 and 27 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Hester and d’Angeac. The Examiner also sets forth in the
Examiner's answer three new grounds of rejection which are as
follows: claims 20 through 22, 28, 31, 60 and 61 under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hester; claims 8
4
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