Appeal No. 1997-3837
Application No. 08/269,251
be an acceptable practice to the appellants and to this Board. We have reviewed the
entire cited portion of Irwin and do not find even a hint of suggestion of the prior or early
arbitration as the examiner maintains. Irwin is concerned with the use of the bus by a
coprocessor and preventing the coprocessor from monopolizing the bus and not early
arbitration as recited in the claimed invention. Therefore, we will not sustain the rejection
of claims 13 and 14.
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