Appeal No. 1996-3541
Application 08/275,307
1. In a microcontroller of the type which includes an execution unit for executing
stored program instructions, a memory system for storing said program instructions and
comprising:
memory means for storing said program instructions, said memory means including
a static random access memory; and
program interface means coupled to said static random access memory and
arranged to be coupled to an external source of said program instructions for providing
said static random access memory with said program instructions from said external
source of said program instructions for use by said microcontroller to control a device as a
device driver.
The following references are relied on by the examiner:
Goodman et al. (Goodman) 4,099,236 July 4, 1978
Andersen et al. (Andersen) 4,718,003 Jan. 5, 1988
Claims 30 through 34 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated
by Goodman. All claims on appeal, claims 1 through 21 and 23 through 35, stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the examiner relies upon Andersen
alone. The supplemental examiner's answer issued in response to the earlier-noted
remand order from this panel does not affirmatively state that the other rejections of record
from the final rejection have been formally withdrawn. Since they have not been
repeated in the latest answer, we consider them to have been withdrawn by the examiner
in response to the remand order. Appellant's most recent reply brief in response to this
latest answer implicitly agrees.
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