Appeal No. 1997-3911
Application 08/368,758
the pending claims, under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We affirm-in- 2
part.
The invention
The invention relates to correcting errors or bugs
discovered in the information such as programs and data stored
as firmware in the ROM of a mass-produced micro-controller
without requiring replacement of the ROM (Spec. at 1, line 20
to p. 2, line 24). Appellants' micro-controller is designed
to permit correction information to be entered into the RAM of
the micro-controller for use in place of the erroneous
information stored in the ROM.
As explained in the specification at page 5, lines 7-33,
appellants' Figure 1 shows an electronics apparatus 1 which,
in addition to the ROM 15, input means 12, data bus 13,
address controller 14, and address bus 16 found in a
conventional micro-controller, contains correcting information
storing means 100 and switching means 200 responsive to
correcting information provided by external storage means 11.
2The Final Rejection (Paper No. 20) incorrectly gives
the claim numbers as 14-23.
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