Appeal No. 96-0609
Application No. 08/024,803
same page of the answer, the Examiner states that it would
have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to
provide multiple shift registers in Moran's memory because it
would have provided increased performance of Moran's system.
On page 8 of the answer, the Examiner further states that one
of ordinary skill would have made the modification to allow
more data to be transferred. We note that the Examiner did
not provide any evidence in the prior art to support the
Examiner's conclusion.
The Federal Circuit states that "[t]he mere fact that the
prior art may be modified in the manner suggested by the
Examiner does not make the modification obvious unless the
prior art suggested the desirability of the modification." In
re Fritch, 972 F.2d 1260, 1266 n.14, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1783-84
n.14 (Fed. Cir. 1992), citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900,
902, 221 USPQ 1125, 1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984).
Upon a further review of Moran, we find that Moran
teaches in column 16 memory shift registers 1007-1012 that
caused a single block of data to be transferred. We agree
that Moran fails to teach or suggest,
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