Appeal No. 1996-2369 Page 10
Application No. 08/191,723
We note that the appellants’ admitted prior art merely
teaches that “address data not within the scope of effective
address are discriminated ... so that no undesired display can
occur within the effective display space.” (Spec. at 4.)
Neither the use of extended bits nor the conversion of address
data is disclosed therein. Consequently, the admitted prior
art neither teaches nor would have suggested the data
regulating means as claimed.
Regarding claim 3, the appellants argue, “As to that
which is allegedly disclosed by the admitted prior art, there
is clearly no disclosure of a loop count register means as
claimed.” (Appeal Br. at 18.) They add, “Moreover, in the
description of a block transfer such as a write loop beginning
with the last line at page 6 of the present disclosure, it is
believed to be abundantly clear that no loop count register
means is included.” (Id. at 18-19.) The examiner replies,
“Claim 3 simply requires a loop counter means for storing
operation number data input from the control means. This
broadly reads on the result buffer (112) for storing the
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