Appeal No. 97-2982 Page 7
Application No. 08/219,554
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 method as claimed by the Applicant.” 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 method of operation
in accordance with the ANSI SCSI stsndard [sic, standard] in
the system described by Fischer, since Fischer leaves details
of SCSI operation unsaid and explicitly suggests that the ANSI
SCSI standard be followed.” (Id. at 5.)
In response, the appellants emphasize that their
invention “has a method for the erasure [of ATTENTION DATA]
for only the requesting host processor.” (Appeal Br. at 6.)
“In the SCSI standard and in Fisher in view of the SCSI
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007