Appeal No. 1997-1636 Page 18
Application No. 08/204,996
1888 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (affirming a rejection based on thirteen
references). In fact, the number of references that may be
combined is theoretically infinite. Ex parte Fine, 1927 Dec.
Comm'r Pats. 84, 86 (Comm'r Pats. 1927). The appellants have
not shown error in the rejection. Therefore, we affirm the
rejection of claims 11 and 12. Next, we address the
obviousness of claim 13.
Claim 13
Regarding claim 13, the appellants note, “Independent
claim 13 describes a method of operating the architecture of
claim 1 and transferring the operating states of each
processor to a corresponding processor of subsequent layers
across the entire array of processors.” (Appeal Br. at 11.)
They argue, “As discussed above, none of the references teach
this.” (Id.)
The pages of the appeal brief that precede the argument
contain a multiplicity of arguments. It is unclear to which
of these arguments the appellants refer. Furthermore, we have
rejected many of the arguments. The appellants have not shown
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