Appeal No. 1999-2050 Page 8
Application No. 08/576,544
Regarding claim 6, the appellants argue, "Ben-Efraim does
not disclose 'data is both written to and read from memory
during consecutive select line activations,' ...." (Appeal
Br. at 5.) Claim 6 specifies in pertinent part the following
limitations: "data is both written to and read from the memory
during consecutive select line activations ...." Giving the
claim its broadest reasonable interpretation, the limitations
recite writing data to and reading data from the memory during
consecutive select line activations.
The examiner fails to show a teaching of the limitations
in Ben-Efraim. To the contrary, he admits, "when the switch
52 activates one of the segments to write a data to one of the
shift register, the switch pointer 54 will activate the same
segment to read the same data which written into the shift
register." (Examiner's Answer at 7.) For its part, the
reference teaches that "[a]fter a segment 34, 36, 38 or 40 is
selected, the oldest symbol or data bit in the segment is read
out from the right end of the respective shift register, a new
symbol is written into the left end of the shift register, and
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