Appeal No. 1997-3821
Application No. 08/570,256
For the foregoing reasons, we are reversing the
§ 103 rejection with respect to each of the appealed claims.
There is an additional reason for reversing the
§ 103 rejection of independent claims 1, 15, and 18, and their
dependent claims 2-5, 8, 9, 16, 19, 20, 22, and 23. Each of
these independent claims call for the transfer of
configuration data from the claimed memory to the claimed
internal register to occur "independently of a command from
said host computer." We agree with appellant that this
independence is not present in Morgan's system, wherein the
process of transferring configuration data from configuration
register 160 (Fig. 5) to configuration registers 202 (Fig. 2)
is initiated by CPU 20, which sets a signature read request
bit in the status configuration register 202 for one of the
banks of memory (col. 12, lines 25-29.) The transfer of data
is therefore dependent on (albeit indirectly) a command from
the CPU.
F. Summary
The § 112, first paragraph, rejection is affirmed as
to claims 15 and 16 and reversed as to claims 18-20. The
§ 103 rejection is reversed as to claims 1-5, 8-13, 15, 16,
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