Appeal No. 1996-1097
Application 08/058,110
(Paper No. 14) (pages referred to as "Br__") for a statement
of Appellants' arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Appellants limit their arguments to arguing that
Jenkins is directed to an associative memory for improving
overall memory speed and "fails to disclose either the
indexed addressing mode and constant address offset feature"
(Br5). Appellants further argue that Kumagai and Jenkins do
not disclose the indexed addressing mode and constant
address offset limitations "because they fail to teach or
recognize the problem solved by the Applicants' claimed
invention, that problem being the inefficient use of
computer memory in a control system" (Br6).
The Examiner finds that "Jenkins et al also discloses
the memory addresses for facilitating storage" (FR3; EA4)
and concludes that it would have been obvious to modify
Kumagai by incorporating "the addresses from the system of
Jenkins et al because such modification will enable easy
storage step for the similar signals of the ignition coils,
and easy access for retrieving the stored signals, thereby
providing a more efficient memory system for the internal
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