Appeal No. 2002-0278
Application 08/797,674
References
The references relied on by the Examiner are as follows:
Tan et al. (Tan) 5,434,976 Jul. 18, 1995
IEEE Standard for Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI), 1993,
pp. 2-4.
Rejections at Issue
Claims 1 through 13, 15 through 18 and 24 through 32 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) based upon a public use or sale
of the invention. Claims 1 through 3, 8, 24, 26, 27, 30 and 32
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by
Tan. Claims 4-7, 10 through 13, 15 through 17, 25 through 28 and
31 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable
over Tan. Claims 9, 18 and 29 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103 as being unpatentable over Tan in view of IEEE SCI.
Throughout our opinion, we will make reference to the brief1
and the answer for the respective details thereof.
1 Appellants filed an appeal brief on April 20, 2001. A
notice of defective brief was mailed on April 27, 2001.
Appellants filed an amended appeal brief on June 1, 2001. We
note that the amended Appellants’ brief is the complete brief and
we will hereinafter refer to this brief as simply the brief.
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