Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
the counters to a predetermined count for ultimately
activating the condition sensor. We fail to find that the
prior art suggests modifying Hester's serial scan circuit such
that it 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.
Therefore, we will not sustain the Examiner's rejection of
Appellants' claim 9.
Claim 10
Claim 10 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 includes
“a multiplexer having inputs connected to said sensor circuits
and an output connected to said counter," and none of the
references relied upon discloses these claimed features.
Brief at 6. In response, the Examiner states:
d’Angeac discloses testing a field
replaceable unit, such as a chip, having
plural scan strings (see column 1, lines
37-40). Each scan string 41, including
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