Appeal No. 95-0692
Application 07/755,237
OPINION
As a result of our thorough study of the combined
teachings and suggestions of Boudreau and Eikill, we must
reverse the outstanding rejection of all claims on appeal
under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103.
Despite the examiner’s attempt to correlate the various
teachings of the references in the statement of the rejection
at pages 3 through 5 of the answer as to the claims on appeal,
the relevance of each reference to the particular claim
language recited in independent claims 1 and 4 on appeal is
hard to determine individually, let alone collectively, as
argued by the examiner. Even in view of Boudreau’s teaching
in the paragraph bridging cols. 31 and 32 that it may be
possible to use other types of priority resolution and timing
circuits than those disclosed in his patent, we find that the
artisan would not have found it obvious to have utilized the
grant token line 76 as well as the various select token lines
of each slave device connected to each master device of Eikill
in Boudreau.
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