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                  Appeal No. 2000-0414                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 08/811,101                                                                                                              

                  and use thereof to automatically start the generation of the line data during the second                                                
                  time period.  (See brief at page 11.)  Appellants argue that the examiner has provided                                                  
                  no teaching of discussion of the use of a start control bit.  We agree with appellants,                                                 
                  and find that the examiner has not established a prima facie case of obviousness with                                                   
                  respect to independent claim 33 and dependent claims 34 and 35.  Therefore, we will                                                     
                  not sustain the rejection of claims 33-35.                                                                                              
                                                                  CONCLUSION                                                                              
                           To summarize, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 1 and 24-35  under                                                 
                  35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.                                                                                                            
                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              




                                             ERROL A. KRASS                                        )                                                      
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