Appeal No. 96-2091
Application No. 08/230,544
and second signal wherein the first signal activates the
status flag and the second signal deactivates the status flag.
We disagree. The SET signal of Wong clearly "activates" the
CLOCK OUT signal and the RESET signal of Wong clearly
"deactivates" the CLOCK OUT signal. Further, the CLOCK OUT
signal is generated from a time delay between the SET and
RESET signals. Since the SET signal is activated by the CLOCK
IN signal and the CLOCK IN signal is then delayed by element
22 with the delayed signal being employed to generate the
RESET signal, quite clearly the
CLOCK OUT signal (i.e., the "status flag") is generated from a
time delay between the first and second signals, as claimed.
Appellant further argues [principal brief, page 4] that
Wong does not disclose that the status flag has a predefined
minimum active pulse length and suggests, on the contrary,
that a very narrow CLOCK IN transition will show at the
output, referring to column 4, lines 48-55 of Wong. Again, we
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