Appeal No. 1997-1271
Application 08/294,765
distributed memories and processors into the cache-based system of Bennett. By the
examiner's own admission in the statement of the rejection, Bennett alone is deficient to
meet the subject matter of the claims on appeal. The same may be said of Keryvel alone.
The examiner's rationale to combine the teachings of Keryvel into Bennett's system are
simplistic, speculative, and unpersuasive. The rationale and further explanation of the
examiner in the responsive arguments portion of the principal answer and the
supplemental answer do not appear to us to be prospective in nature from the combined
teachings and suggestions of the references, but based on prohibited hindsight. The
architectural nature of the references individually are so discontinuous as to lead the
artisan to merely speculate as to their combinability.
On the other hand, assuming for the sake of argument that the references are
properly combinable within 35 U.S.C. § 103, key features common to the independent
claims grouped by appellant (that is, independent claims 1, 13, 18 and their respective
dependent claims as well as dependent claims 6, 14, 15, and independent claims 16, 17,
30 and 31 and their respective dependent claims) could not be met as well. In
independent claim 1, the request/response memory stores request storage memory
information in a particular space as requested by a first device and response storage
memory information in a separate space corresponding to a second device, where this
request storage memory space indicates accessibility to both the first and the second
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