Appeal No. 97-2979 Page 6
Application No. 08/219,553
The examiner reasons, “[s]ince Fischer suggests SCSI operation
in accordance with the ANSI standard, the artisan would have
ben [sic, been] motivated to implement SCSI operation in
accordance with this standard.” (Id. at 5.)
Regarding ANSI, the examiner asserts, “[t]he SCSI
standard teaches how a SCSI initiator works with just one
memory unit connected to one host which is an equivalent
structure to that described by Applicant. See SCSI standard
sections 6, 6.1.3, 7.1.1-3, 7.1.5-6, pp. 26, 51-71, 80-82,
185-186, 194-199, 208-209. The referenced sections teach the
operation of the elements as claimed by the Applicant.”
(Id.) Despite this assertion, the examiner fails to map the
complete claim language to the disclosures of Fischer and
ANSI. He also neglects to indicate precisely what language is
missing from any of the references.
The examiner ends the rejection by concluding that it
would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art at
the time of the invention “to provide the apparatus disclosed
and claimed by Applicant in claims 1-3 to operate in
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