Appeal No. 1997-4190
Application No. 08/221,721
While there are many arguments addressed in the three
briefs and two answers and there are many claim limitations
which might be addressed by us, we will address just two of
the instant claim limitations which are exemplary of the
deficiencies of the applied references.
Each of the claims requires a control means for resetting
the timing means and the sync generator means. Independent
claims 1 and 13 are even more specific in reciting that the
control means includes means responsive to an externally
supplied asynchronous reset signal for resetting both the
timing means and the sync generator means. Claim 1 also
includes means for selecting an internal reset mode and an
external reset mode.
As appellant points out [top of page 12 of the principal
brief], Hunt discloses only that a timing means is responsive
to an externally supplied asynchronous reset signal. However,
the sync generator means, 62, is not coupled to the externally
supplied reset signal. From Hunt’s description and Figures 1A
and 1B, appellant appears to be correct since Hunt never
describes the sync generator means, 62, as being responsive to
an externally supplied asynchronous reset signal and we find
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