Appeal No. 1997-3911
Application 08/368,758
correction information is written into PROM 6 via the
input/output port 12. See column 3, lines 23-26 ("A corrected
instruction thus is written in a particular address of the
PROM 6 as the destination of the interruption via the I/O port
12 (STEP S10), so that the microcomputer executes the
corrected program."). 4
The second limitation is that the random access
correcting information storage means "stor[es] the correcting
information upon any initialization of the micro-controller."
The examiner describes Yamaguchi as not teaching this
limitation (Answer at 5, lines 5-7), for which he relies on
Patrick, discussed infra. We agree that Yamaguchi does not
teach storing the correction information in PROM 6 upon any
initialization of the micro-controller, which we understand to
mean that the correction information is re-entered into the
random access correcting information storage means every time
the operating system or other program is initially loaded.
4The examiner's observation that Yamaguchi fails to
teach the use of external storage (Final Rej. at 5) is
irrelevant to claim 14, which does not require external
storage. That requirement appears in dependent claim 19,
which is not separately argued.
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