Appeal No. 1997-0636
Application No. 08/312,959
combinability of Akahori and Yamada. Rather, Appellant’s main
point of contention (Brief, page 5) is that neither of the
applied Akahori and Yamada references discloses a key feature
of independent claim 1, i.e. a control switch which performs
both control of data writing to a test mode data setting
memory and initiating of the test mode.
After careful review of the Akahori and Yamada references
we are in agreement with Appellant’s stated position in the
Briefs. In addition to Akahori’s failure to disclose
initiation of the test mode of operation by reset switch 11 as
recognized by the Examiner, we also find no disclosure in
Akahori of the control of data writing to a test data memory
by the reset control switch. We do note that page 2, lines
35-37 of Akahori, referenced by the Examiner (Answer, page 5),
describes the writing and storing of test mode instructions in
program memory 301; however, there is no disclosure that this
data writing operation is controlled by reset switch 11.
Similarly, while the Examiner is correct in his assertion
that Yamada initiates testing operation by operation of reset
switch 11, Yamada also lacks any disclosure of the control of
data writing into a test data memory by such reset switch. As
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