Appeal No. 97-2992 Page 4
Application No. 08/521,836
the claimed subject matter, the examiner has not pointed to
anything specific, within the disclosure of Aslanian, that
corresponds to each of the claimed elements. Our independent
review of Aslanian finds no such correspondence of the instant
claimed elements with anything disclosed by Aslanian.
In fact, the instant claimed subject matter is directed to
a “printer” and the body of the instant claims further define
what comprises that printer. Thus, a “printer” must comprise a
“non-volatile memory data print command discriminating means”
and the printer must also comprise a “non-volatile memory data
printing means for printing out machine code data recorded in
the non-volatile memory when the data print command
discriminating means has discriminated a control command
relating to printing out the machine code data recorded in the
non-volatile memory.”
While Aslanian discloses a printer (10-26 in Figure 1) as
an ancillary item in a broader system, the reference is not
directed to that printer but, rather, to a system for
performing automatic dump analysis when a computer system
crashes. (abrstract, lines 1 and 9-11). No details of the
printer are given by the disclosure of Aslanian and so it would
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