Appeal No. 1996-3708
Application 07/474,742
We find that the Examiner has failed to show that each
limitation of the claims is anticipated by the prior art. In
particular the Examiner has not shown that Engels discloses a
communications bus or a central core which contains an
interface with the communications bus, and an encoder. We
find that the Engels reference discloses a HOST which
generates data and transmits it to boards which contain
several DSPs. Further we find that each DSP individually
interfaces with the host. We find that the Engels reference
fails to disclose a core which interfaces with a
communications bus, decodes data received from the
communications bus and transmits the data to the signal
processor. We find that Engels fails to disclose Appellants'
claimed core which provides all three functions of
interfacing, decoding and transmitting. Thus, we will not
sustain the Examiner’s rejection of claims 18 and 19 under 35
U.S.C. § 102.
The 35 U.S.C. § 103 Rejection
Next we consider the rejection of the claims under 35
U.S.C. § 103 as being obvious over Engels in view of the
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