Appeal No. 97-1638
Application 08/371,446
We will not sustain the rejection of claims 3, 7, 11 and 15 because the prior art has not been
shown to teach or suggest a solid state disk card, an OS/application card or a mother board having a
main bus and an input/output bus which are independent of each other.
Lastly, we will not sustain the rejection of claims 4, 5, 8 and 12-14 over Yeh. Appellant is
correct that the reference does not disclose or suggest a mother board having a plurality of connectors
disposed in rows for detachably mounting a plurality of IC cards. The assemblies illustrated in Figures
1 and 3 of Yeh show no mother board to which IC cards positioned within memory card slots 110 and
111 are detachably mounted. The examiner’s position at page 6 of the answer that "it would have been
obvious that the IC cards are electronically coupled to the mother board via the connectors" is not
supported by evidence.
REVERSED
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ERROL A. KRASS ) APPEALS AND
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