Appeal No. 95-3405
Application 08/077,505
added to the control code received from the host computer, in
response to which certain acts occur as is defined in claim 1.
For the foregoing reasons, we do not sustain the rejection
of claims 1, 3, and 5-10 as being anticipated by Steeves.
With regard to Christopher, the examiner states that in
Christopher, selected portions of EPROM memories 202 and 206 are
reconfigured by software alone, and that the reconfiguration
includes emulation program data "such as on-line downloading of
data, language, enabling formats and configuring formats" (answer
at 5-6). We agree with the appellant, however, that none of
these items referred to by the examiner equates to the
appellant’s claimed emulation program. The examiner has provided
no explanation as to why any of the above-referenced items can
reasonably be regarded as an emulation program in the appellant’s
claimed invention. The following points of the appellant remain
unanswered (Reply at 3):
Online downloading of data relates to downloading data
from a host computer and is unrelated to interpreting
control codes in the data. Similarly, enabling formats
and configuring formats relates to the interaction of
the hardware and its compatibility with the data,
similar to the configuration data of Steeves, discussed
above. These operations are also unrelated to an
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