Appeal No. 1999-2050 Page 10
Application No. 08/576,544
Ben-Efraim teaches the limitations. Because Ben-Efraim
teaches writing to and reading data from a shift register
segment during the same select line activations, as mentioned
regarding claim 6, we are persuaded that the reference
discloses the limitations that "data is both written to and
read from memory during all select line activations ... for
each repeated delay portion." Therefore, we affirm the
rejection of claim 7 as anticipated by Ben-Efraim.
Regarding claim 9, the appellants argue, "Ben-Efraim does
not disclose 'reading to and writing from memory shifts ...
the memory locations of interleaved bit groups,' ...."
(Appeal Br. at 6.) Claim 9 specifies in pertinent part the
following limitations: "the reading to and writing from memory
shifts the data through the memory locations of interleaved
bit groups." Giving the claim its broadest reasonable
interpretation, the limitations recite that the reading data
to and writing data from memory shifts the data through the
memory locations.
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