Appeal No. 1997-3821
Application No. 08/570,256
Appellant's reliance on the previous examiner's description of
Morgan is misplaced, because unlike appellant's application
Morgan discloses a separate power sensor element 28 for
determining when power is initially applied to the data
processing system 10:
The present invention can also include means
for sensing an initialization condition to cause the
central processing unit to begin the initialization
program. As shown in the preferred embodiment of
the invention in FIG. 1, a power sensor 28 detects
when electrical power is provided to data processing
system 10 in order to initiate bootstrap operations.
The output of circuit 28, after passing through
synchronization circuitry not important to an
understanding of the present invention, generates a
reset (RST) signal for various components of data
processing system 10 which take specific actions at
times of initialization. [Col. 3, line 65 to
col. 4, line 8.]
We find ourselves in agreement with the examiner on the
support question. While appellant's specification states that
"[w]hen power is provided to board 10, controller 16 executes
a series of microinstructions" (p. 5, lines 26-27) and that
"[o]nce the configuration data bits are written into registers
18a and 18b, controller 16 will continue its power up routine
utilizing the configuration data bits to configure board 10"
(p. 6, lines 8-11), it does not indicate that the
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