Appeal No. 2001-0594
Application No. 08/929,153
Reference is made to the brief and answer for the respective
positions of appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
An anticipatory reference is one that teaches each and every
claimed element and its function. RCA Corp v. Applied Digital
Data Sys. Inc., 730 F.2d 1440, 1444, 221 USPQ 385, 388 (Fed.
Cir.); cert. dismissed, 468 U.S. 1228 (1984).
Taking independent claim 1 as exemplary, the examiner
contends that Walsh discloses an indication to a first integrated
circuit that a wake-up event has occurred on a second integrated
circuit, with the first and second integrated circuits being
coupled by a bus. Specifically, the examiner points to Figure 4,
elements 102, 110, 104; to column 17, lines 1-5; and to column
29, line 55, of Walsh.
Figure 4 of Walsh shows a high bandwidth bus 104
interconnecting a docking station microprocessor unit MPU 102 and
a single-chip peripheral processor unit PPU 110. The cited
portion of column 17 recites that when substantial portions of
PPU 110 and system 102 have been deactivated by a power
management block, reactivation can be initiated by circuitry in
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