Appeal No. 1997-0637
Application 08/265,965
of a claimed invention be disclosed by a single reference.
Here, we find that Livay falls short of that requirement. For
example, Livay does not disclose the claimed feature of
“writing the data and said free list start address to said
current location in a single
write cycle” (claim 1, lines 9 to 10). The Examiner contends,
in response to the Appellants’ argument that a single memory
location is used to store data and a corresponding pointer,
that “there is no mention of adjacent storage of such elements
in the claim language” [answer, page 9]. The Examiner seems
to view the “location” as comprised of elements 212, LLT and
the POINTER-TABLE in Livay, see figure 1. Before going
further with this interpretation, we note that such
interpretation is not consistent with Appellants’
specification. For example, Appellants, on page 4, lines 24
to 26, disclose that “[A]s noted, each memory location has two
fields: a data field to store the packet data; and a pointer
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