Appeal No. 1997-3821
Application No. 08/570,256
microcontroller or any other circuitry generates a signal
which indicates that power has been applied and serves to
instruct the microcontroller to commence the initialization
program, as implied by the language in question. Accordingly,
the § 112 rejection of claim 15 and its dependent claim 16 is
affirmed.
However, the § 112 rejection is reversed with respect to
independent claim 18 and its dependent claims 19 and 20,
because claim 18 no longer includes the "determining when
power is supplied" language that the examiner finds
objectionable. Instead, the claim recites "said transferring
steps are performed in response to the application of power to
said expansion circuit board," which the examiner has not
addressed.
E. The § 103 Rejection of Claims
1-5, 8-13, 15, 16, 18-20, and 22-24
Morgan discloses a data processing system 10 which
provides
automatic configuration of memory boards 70, 72, 74, and 76,
which, like appellant's expansion circuit boards, have
connectors for insertion into expansion slots of a host
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