1 Application for patent filed August 27, 1993.
claim 3, and likewise claims 19 and 27 which depend therefrom
and incorporate the same unmet limitation.
With regard to independent claim 7, Appellant
argues:
Nowhere, however, does Holsztynski ‘019 describe
routing the global GLOR signal back into the cell
through global signal input means exclusively for
receiving the global signal from the global signal
generating means, as recited in the claim. This may
readily be seen by examining Holsztynski ‘019's
FIGS. 4(a) & 4(b): The GLOBAL signal is shown as an
output signal from the cell in FIG. 4(b), but
nowhere is a processing cell input means shown for
receiving this signal. The Holsztynski patents also
fail to disclose any memory means for storing a
global signal from global signal input means.
(Brief-page 25.)
The Examiner responds:
Holsztynski (‘019) discloses global signal (GLOR)
generation circuitry shown in Figure 4b (element
150) and described in Col. 5, line 61 et seq.
(Answer-page 10.)
Again, as with claim 3 supra, the Examiner presents
art with the basic concept, but not Appellant’s claimed
implementation. Claim 7 recites “global signal input means
[for each cell] exclusively for receiving the global signal
from the global signal generating means; and memory means
coupled to receive and store the global signal...” Since the
Examiner has not shown the global signal input for each cell,
nor a memory means for storing the global signal, we will not
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