Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
Claim 9
Claim 9 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in
view of Hester, d’Angeac and Poret. Appellants argue that
this rejection should be reversed because this claim recites
that:
said serial scan circuit is interconnected
with said counter for loading said counter
with a value indicative of a predetermined
count to which said condition sensor is
thereby made sensitive,
and none of the references relied upon discloses these claimed
features. Brief at 6.
In response, the Examiner states on page 8 of the
answer that:
It would have been obvious to a person
having ordinary skill in the art to provide
Poret’s on-chip counters in Hester’s chip
because they support the clearly desirable
aspects of increased flexibility in
controlling debugging operations.
However, a review of Poret and d’Angeac fails to reveal why
a person of ordinary skill in the electronic processor art
would have reason to modify Hester’s circuitry to include
Poret’s counters such that the serial scan circuit would load
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