Appeal No. 1997-0884
Application 08/260,148
reconfigurable integrated circuit that can receive and store
access codes and transmit access codes, not just that such has
not been admitted in the specification. The Examiner states
(EA3): "The admitted prior art shows that an IC can be
configured as a receiver to receive and store access codes.
The IC can also be configured as a transmitter to transmit
codes." Because Appellants deny that it was known prior art
to them to have a reconfigurable integrated circuit that can
receive and store access codes and transmit access codes, the
Examiner errs in relying on the APA for these limitations and,
thus, the obviousness rejection is flawed from the start.
The combination of the APA and Lindmayer does not render
the claimed subject matter obvious. Lindmayer is discussed in
connection with the anticipation rejection. Neither the APA
nor Lindmayer discloses a reconfigurable integrated circuit
that can receive and store access codes and transmit access
codes. While Lindmayer may set a flag when a transmitter has
been used at least once, the flag is not used to modify the
code (claim 1) or deny transmission of the access code
(claim 3) upon reconfiguration of the integrated circuit as a
transmitter. Therefore, the Examiner has failed to establish
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