Appeal No. 1998-1589
Application No. 08/388,631
a random number generator circuit for generating a random
sequence of signals; and
a computer including a means for interfacing with said random
number generator circuit, said means for interfacing consisting of one or
more of the following: a device driver, a TSR, a portion of the operating
system of said computer, and a program stored in the bios memory of said
computer.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the examiner in rejecting the appealed
claims are:
Fasang 4,433,413 Feb. 21, 1984
Yokouchi 5,193,198 Mar. 09, 1993
Stankovic et al. (Stankovic)5,510,698 Apr. 23, 1996
(Filed Aug. 5, 1993)
The MS-DOS Encyclopedia, Article 15: Installable Device Drivers, Section II:
Programming in the MS Dos Environment, pp 447-471, 1998.
Claims 21-28 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over
Fasang in view of Yokouchi, Stankovic and Article 15. We sustained the examimer’s
rejection in our decision, mailed Aug. 28, 2000.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
This is in response to appellant's request for rehearing of our decision, mailed
Aug. 28, 2000, wherein we affirmed the examiner's rejection of claims 21-28 under
35 U.S.C. § 103.
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