Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
Claim 28
Claim 28 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 in
view of Hester and Poret. Appellants argue that this
rejection should be reversed because this claim recites that:
said serial scan circuit being
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 neither Hester nor Poret discloses these claimed features.
Brief at 4.
In response, the Examiner states:
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.
Answer at 8. However, a review of Poret 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 the
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