Appeal No. 2000-0471
Application No. 08/871,442
acceptable, this value may be a much lower percentage of M,
even one more than one half being acceptable as a majority
value.
Moreover, in our view, Brown would be merely cumulative
to the already general knowledge of skilled artisans that when
one has reached a majority number and the majority is the
number of interest in a particular field, there is no need to
count further.
Appellants contend that the “memory reduction aspect of
the present invention is not disclosed or suggested, by either
Koike or Brown” (page 6 of principal brief). However, we
agree with the examiner that Koike clearly discloses, at
column 5,
lines 5-10, that an advantage of Koike’s device is that the
“capacity of the shift register...can be greatly reduced...”
Therefore, Koike does teach that the advantage of memory
reduction is obtained. Appellants also argue that Brown is
not directed to memory reduction at all. To whatever extent
this may be true, it is not relevant since the examiner relies
on Koike for this teaching. Even if, arguendo, the instant
invention may reduce memory to a greater extent than does
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