Appeal No. 1997-2983 Page 12
Application No. 08/482,792
reverse the rejections of claims 1, 6, 11, and 14 as obvious
over AAPA in view of Levy and Delagi; claims 2, 4, 7-10, and
12 as obvious over AAPA in view of Levy and Delagi further in
view of Tanaka; and claim 3 as obvious over AAPA in view of
Levy, Delagi, and Tanaka further in view of Maejima. We next
address claim 13.
Claim 13
“In the patentability context, claims are to be given
their broadest reasonable interpretations. Moreover,
limitations are not to be read into the claims from the
specification.”
In re Van Geuns, 988 F.2d 1181, 1184, 26 USPQ2d 1057, 1059
(Fed. Cir. 1993)(citing In re Zletz, 893 F.2d 319, 321, 13
USPQ2d 1320, 1322 (Fed. Cir. 1989)). Here, claim 13 merely
specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "an
exclusive-use data bus connected between said register file
and said random access memory for data exchange therebetween
and provided separately from said system bus ...." Giving the
claim its broadest reasonable interpretation, the limitations
recite using a dedicated bus to transfer data between a
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