Appeal No. 95-4172 Page 4
Application 08/040,698
(Paper 1 at 15.) Appellants provided credible evidence that
bank management and multiple banks would have specific
meanings to those skilled in the art. (Paper 7 attachment:
Richard F. Ferraro, Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA
Cards 653-656 (2d ed.) .)2
The examiner's combination of references does not suggest
Appellants' method of multibanking with a logical buffer.
Unfortunately, neither the examiner nor Appellants explored
the range of equivalents to the disclosed structures and acts
corresponding to the means and steps in the claims. The
record also contains no analysis about the level of skill in
the art, the practice of providing logical buffers to expand
available memory, or how one skilled in the art might
implement a logically buffered multibanking function.
Consequently, we have no basis for affirming the examiner's
rejection of the appealed claims.
2 Although no date is listed, the examiner has not
objected to this evidence and the subject matter suggests that
it is at least contemporaneous with, if not earlier than,
Appellants' filing date.
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