Appeal No. 94-3053
Application 07/832,661
counters to a predetermined count for ultimately activating
the condition sensor. We fail to find a teaching of a 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 with the necessary reasons to modify the
circuitry of Hester. Therefore, we will not sustain the
Examiner's rejection of claim 28.
Claim 31
Claim 31 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:
counting occurrences of selected conditions
of the electronic processor and producing a
signal when a predetermined count is
reached,
and neither Hester nor Poret discloses these claimed features.
Brief at 5. In response, the Examiner states:
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