Appeal No. 1997-2399
Application No. 08/355,104
would be entirely contrary to the expressly stated purpose of
the structure disclosed in the reference.”
We agree with appellants’ arguments. Kimura neither
teaches nor would have suggested arbitration between two
microprocessors for independent control of a system bus.
Accordingly, the obviousness rejection of claims 1 through 7,
11, 13, 15 through 20, 23 and 26 is reversed.
The obviousness rejection of claims 8 through 10, 12, 14,
21, 22, 24, 25, 27 and 28 is likewise reversed because the
references to Williams, Ossfeldt, Burrage, Cutts and Best do
not cure the noted shortcoming in the teachings of Kimura.
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