Appeal No. 1997-3911
Application 08/368,758
apparatus such as micro-controllers or the like.
[Spec. at 1, line 13 to p. 2, line 4.]
Consequently, we agree with the examiner that it would have
been obvious, for the purpose of minimizing the size and cost
of Denki's microcomputerized control device, to form Denki's
substitute command register, when implemented as an internal
RAM, on the same substrate as other components of the device.
As for the initialization requirement, re-entry of the
substitution commands into Denki's RAM is clearly necessary
any time the micro-controller is initialized, which is broad
enough to refer to initializing the micro-controller either by
loading the operating system or by loading the particular
program which requires the substitution commands.
The rejection of claim 14 over Denki is therefore
affirmed, as is the rejection of dependent claims 15-17, 19,
20, 22, and 23 over that reference.
The rejection of dependent claim 18 is reversed. Denki
does not disclose or suggest means for gating the address
coincidence signal 9 only when a control flag latch is set to
indicate that there is a defective information part in the
read-only information storage means.
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