Appeal No. 1997-0583
Application 08/368,680
said plurality of slave sample and hold circuits comprising a
first slave input directly connected to said master output and
a first slave output and operable to sample a master signal
from said master output and hold the value of said master
signal on said first slave output for a second predetermined
period of time;
a plurality of multiplexers, each comprising a plurality
of multiplexer inputs and a second output, ones of said second
outputs each coupled to one of said second multiplier inputs,
at least one of said plurality of multiplexer inputs of a
first predetermined number of multiplexers coupled to a first
output of a first one of said slave circuits; and
wherein the output of each of said multipliers is summed
so as to form said output of said FIR filter.
The reference relied on by the Examiner is:
Lish 5,050,119 Sept. 17, 1991
Claims 1 through 20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103
over Lish and under obvious-type double patenting over claims
1 to 20 of S.N. 08/368,679.
Reference is made to Appellants' brief and the Examiner's
answer for their respective positions.
OPINION
We have considered the record before us, and we will
reverse the rejections of claims 1 through 20.
With respect to claims 1 through 20, the Examiner has
failed to set forth a prima facie case of obviousness. It is
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