Appeal No. 97-3075
Application No. 08/201,846
sections of the specification which provide support. For
example, page 2, lines 12-16, recites
...and decoding the digital phase signal and
accessing the location at the address of the memory
represented by the digital phase signal so as to
select samples remote from edges in the waveform of
the input data signal.
The examiner argues (principal answer-page 5) that this
section of the specification “states absolutely nothing
regarding detecting a location within the sequence of latches
represented by the decoded digital phase signal.” The
examiner is in error. Clearly, the specification discloses
the decoding of a digital phase signal. The specification
then says that the location at the address of the memory
represented by the digital phase signal is accessed.
Therefore, it is not the sequence of latches which is
represented by the decoded digital phase signal, which is how
the examiner apparently is construing the claim, but, rather,
it is the location of a waveform edge within the sequence of
latches which is represented by the decoded digital phase
signal.
For some reason, both the examiner and appellants then go
off on a tangent in discussing whether the disclosed
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