Appeal No. 1997-2292
Application No. 08/483,839
The signal diagrams forming part of the present
application provide a significant amount of
information to those skilled in the art because it
is common practice in the digital arts to use such
diagrams to describe circuit components, and
particularly simple circuit components. In fact,
the waveform diagrams not only make a significant
contribution to satisfaction of the enablement
requirement, but also identify the range of
equivalents of circuits according to the present
invention. In effect, any digital circuit that will
produce the signal KCOUNT in response to the input
signal SK can serve as a suitable clock number-
detecting circuit, and any digital circuit that will
produce the signal PGCY in response to the
combination of input signals KCOUNT and CS can be
used as a program control circuit in an integrated
circuit according to the present invention. Any one
skilled in the design of digital logic circuits
could devise suitable clock number-detecting and
program control circuits based solely on the
waveform diagrams shown in Figs. 3.
We agree wholeheartedly with the appellant’s assessment
of the enablement of the disclosed and claimed invention
“because reduction of this invention to practice, based on the
entirety of the disclosure in the application, requires
virtually no experimentation” (Brief, page 7). In summary,
the lack of enablement rejection of claims 1 and 2 under the
first paragraph of 35 U.S.C. § 112 is reversed because Figure
3 considered alone provides “all of the information that one
skilled in the art would require, as of the date [of] the
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