Appeal No. 1997-3818
Application 08/208,517
Before MARTIN, FLEMING and BARRY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MARTIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-4, 11, and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Claims 19-36, 2
the only other pending claims, stand allowed. We affirm-in-
part.
A. The invention
Appellants' summary of the invention, which the
examiner indicates (Answer at 2) is correct, reads in
pertinent part as follows:
This invention is a data processing
apparatus (100) which may interface with
plural types of memories. A static decoder
coupled to an external port (302) decodes
signals (address shift selection AS[2:0],
bus size selection BS[1:0], column timing
selection CT[1:0], page size selection
PS[2:0], and U&T &I&M&E& inputs) which from
[sic] an external source that indicate the
2The other grounds of rejection stated in the final
rejection and the Answer were withdrawn at page 2 of the
Supplemental Examiner's Answer (paper No. 18) and pages 2 and
3 of the Second Supplemental Examiner's Answer (paper No. 20).
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