Appeal No. 1999-1449
Application 08/640,351
necessarily weigh all of the evidence and arguments.”
In re Oetiker, 977 F.2d at 1445, 24 USPQ2d at 1444. “[T]he Board
must not only assure that the requisite findings are made, based
on evidence of record, but must also explain the reasoning by
which the findings are deemed to support the agency’s
conclusion.” In re Lee, Slip OP 00-1158, page 9. With these
principles in mind, we commence the review of the pertinent
evidence and arguments of Appellants and Examiner.
Appellants argue on pages 8 and 9 of the Brief that although
Nowak discloses an adaptive equalizer, Nowak does not teach or
suggest an interpolation circuit for generating error values
synchronous to the channel rate. Appellants argue that Nowak's
figures 3-4 do not disclose Appellants’ claimed interpolation
circuit because the discrete time values are already synchronized
to the error values. Consequently, they do not need to be
interpolated to generate error values synchronous with the
channel rate.
In particular, on pages 9 and 10 of the Brief, Appellants
state the following:
The reason that Nowak does not disclose an
interpolation circuit is because the discrete time sample
values X(k) (48) in figs. 2, 3 and 4, are already
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