Appeal No. 1997-0342
Application 08/229,135
a two input selector for selecting which data to output onto
an internal bus. To address this deficiency, the Examiner
argues (Answer, page 3) the obviousness to the skilled artisan
of performing the selection operation with a two input
selector by asserting the commonly known and typical usage of
such a selector device. In a similar assertion, at page 2 of
the Supplemental Answer, the Examiner includes the claimed
transfer register in the category of well known basic
components to which the skilled artisan would have found
obvious to utilize.
In response, the primary thrust of Appellant’s arguments
centers on the alleged deficiency of Kahn in disclosing the
claimed selector and register with the specific
interconnections and functions as recited in claim 14. After
careful review of the Kahn reference in light of the arguments
of record, we are in agreement with Appellant’s stated
position in the Briefs. While we do not dispute the
Examiner’s contention that selector devices are commonly used
to pick among various inputs and registers are often used to
transfer data onto a bus, such contention does not address the
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