Appeal No. 1997-0342
Application 08/229,135
As a new ground of rejection in the Answer, the Examiner
has asserted the obviousness of claims 10, 15 and 16 based on
the combination of Kahn and Nozuyama. From the Examiner’s
statement of the grounds of rejection at page 4 of the Answer,
it is apparent that Nozuyama was applied solely to address the
micro-ROM limitations of these claims. We note, however, that
each of the independent claims 10 and 16 contain limitations
similar to that of claim 14 relating to the interrelationship
of a selector and a register with the system bus. As
discussed supra, we do not find the Examiner’s line of
reasoning with respect to the obviousness to the skilled
artisan of incorporating selector and register elements in
Kahn in the specific manner claimed to be well founded.
Further, our review of Nozuyama reveals nothing that would
overcome the innate deficiencies of Kahn and, accordingly, we
do not sustain the Examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103 rejection of
claims 10, 15 and 16.
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