Appeal No. 1997-2983 Page 7
Application No. 08/482,792
In re Bode, 550 F.2d 656, 660, 193 USPQ 12, 16 (CCPA 1977)
(quoting In re Wiggins, 488 F.2d 538, 543, 179 USPQ 421, 424
(CCPA 1973)). Those persons “must be presumed to know
something” about the art “apart from what the references
disclose.”
In re Jacoby, 309 F.2d 513, 516, 135 USPQ 317, 319 (CCPA
1962).
The appellants argue, "the dedicating of the exclusive-
use third and fourth buses for the passing of context data
from a currently-executing program to a to-be-executed program
is nowhere taught or suggested by any of the cited art of
record, nor is it 'well known in the data processing art.'"
(Reply Br. at 4.) The examiner responds, "[a]s to dedicating
the bus to a particular function, is it well known in the data
processing art that a dedicated bus will improve processing
speed for that particular function." (Examiner's Answer at
5.) We consider the persuasiveness of the argument and
response with respect to the following groups of claims:
• claims 1-4, 6-12, and 14
• claim 13.
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