Appeal No. 97-2472 Page 5
Application No. 08/223,770
fails to establish a prima facie case, an obviousness
rejection is improper and will be overturned. In re
Rijckaert, 9 F.3d 1531, 1532, 28 USPQ2d 1955, 1956 (Fed. Cir.
1993). With this in mind, we analyze the examiner’s
rejection of the appealed claims.
Regarding claim 15, the examiner notes that Fung teaches
configuration registers 57-60, an index decoder 70, an index
register 50, and a control unit 13. He admits that Fung
differs from the claimed invention “by not explicitly teaching
a program register.” (Examiner’s Answer at 3.)
The examiner opines that Faucher teaches a program
register, which is “inherent” in memory controller 20. (Id.)
The inherent register, he explains, controls which addresses
will be used in memory and thus what addresses will be
assigned to registers mapped to that memory space. The
examiner cites col. 5, ll. 51-53 and col. 7, l. 59 to col. 9,
l. 48 of Faucher in support of his interpretation. (Id. at 3-
4.) He concludes that it would have been obvious to combine
Faucher with Fung to provide “a more flexible method for
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