Appeal No. 1997-3239
Application 08/312,854
the claimed invention should be considered as a whole; there
is no legally recognizable 'heart' of the invention." Para-
Ordnance Mfg. v. SGS Importers Int’l, Inc., 73 F.3d 1085,
1087, 37 USPQ2d 1237, 1239 (Fed. Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 519
U.S. 822 (1996), citing W. L. Gore & Assocs., Inc. v. Garlock,
Inc., 721 F.2d 1540, 1548, 220 USPQ 303, 309 (Fed. Cir. 1983),
cert. denied, 469 U.S. 851 (1984).
Appellants argue that the references relied on by the
Examiner fail to expressly teach or suggest complementary
first and second signals, said first signal being used to
activate said first enabling means and said complementary
second signal being used to activate said second enabling
means, such that each of the plurality of devices is only
accessed by one controller as recited in Appellants' claim 1.
Appellants argue that this arrangement, as described in the
specification on page 12, line 22, allows for maintaining an
acyclic star configuration without creating loops, such as
those depicted within Fig. 5, so that initialization may
occur. In particular, Appellants argue that patterns within
the shift registers may be utilized to supply TpBias to only
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