Appeal No. 1997-0300
Application 08/138,790
to memory by merging the writes together, i.e. for a 64 bit
bus, two 32 bit writes will be merged into one 64 bit write.
See column 1, lines 51 through 66, and column 4, lines 38
through 52. Thus, we find that these features of Ardini teach
that data should be grouped into one write where possible.
Further, we fail to find that Ardini teaches or suggests use
of the buffer to make writes across memory boundaries.
Rather, we find that the purpose of Ardini is to make the
largest write within the memory’s boundaries.
We fail to find that Ardini provides motivation to
modify Shimp in the manner asserted by the Examiner. Our
reviewing court has stated that “[t]he mere fact that the
prior art may be modified in the manner suggested by the
Examiner does not make the modification obvious unless the
prior art suggested the desirability of the modification.” In
re Fritch, 972 F.2d
1260, 1266 n.14, 23 USPQ2d 1780, 1783-84 n. 14 (Fed. Cir.
1992) (citing In re Gordon, 733 F.2d 900, 902, 221 USPQ 1125,
1127 (Fed. Cir. 1984)). We find that Shimp’s system makes two
writes to different memory addresses. See column 7, line 58.
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