Appeal No. 1997-3273
Application No. 08/397,910
system clock when an alarm queue is full, since Kimmel is
directed to image processing and the status of data buffers.
Further, nothing in Kimmel suggests modifying Bronikowski to
stop the system clock rather than returning an error code when
an alarm queue is full.
Assuming that the two references could be combined, and
that the combination included prioritized memory error queues,
nothing in either reference suggests only detecting an
overflow in the second error queue and stopping the clock
responsive to that detection. If one were to combine Kimmel
and Bronikowski as proposed by the examiner, the clock would
be disabled whenever an overflow condition were detected in
any of the queues, not just one of the queues, as pointed out
by appellants (Brief, page 10).
In the Answer, the examiner introduced Bartlett as
providing further evidence that it was well-known to stop the
system clock to prevent overflow. However, as indicated
above, merely that it was well-known does not render it
obvious for any particular type of system. Accordingly, we
find appellants' arguments convincing, and we will reverse the
rejection of claims 1, 2, and 4 through 6.
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