Appeal No. 96-2693
Application No. 08/018,972
80x86 CPU. Appellants' disclosure recites that the claimed
portable program 20 contains the Load Hardware Instruction 22
(page 7 lines 20, 21 and
Figure 2). Just as Appellants' claimed program contains the
Load Hardware Instruction, so must the PKZIP program in order
to detect the CPU attributes.
In the last paragraph of page 8 of the brief, Appellants
indicate that "[c]laims 7, 11 and 12 further recite that 'the
hardware attributes storage area being a non-volatile,
semiconductor memory device or digital logic hardwired at
fabrication'". They go on to argue that "PKZIP does not
disclose how CPU type is being determined. ... Therefore, it
is inherent that PKZIP does not disclose the storage area for
hardware attributes, much less the type of storage area." We
agree with the Examiner that it is inherent in PKZIP, in
determining the CPU type, PKZIP is relying on a non-volatile
semiconductor storage area of the CPU to obtain the CPU's
attributes, otherwise the CPU would not be able to
remember(e.g. memory) and respond with its attributes.
Therefore, upon considering PKZIP as a whole, we find
that PKZIP does disclose the method of claims 1 and 7. Since
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