Appeal No. 2002-1173
Application No. 09/510,640
dip in the supply voltage, after an end of the dip in the supply
voltage.
The following reference is relied on by the Examiner:
Hsieh 4,902,910 Feb. 20, 1990
Claims 1-9 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by Hsieh.
Rather than reiterate the viewpoints of the Examiner and
Appellants regarding the above-noted rejection, we make reference
to the answer (Paper No. 14, mailed March 21, 2002) for the
Examiner’s complete reasoning in support of the rejection, and
the brief (Paper No. 13, filed January 22, 2002) for Appellants’
arguments thereagainst.
OPINION
Appellants argue that Hsieh cannot anticipate the claimed
subject matter as the reference is merely directed to a power
supply voltage level sensing circuit that generates a reset
signal (brief, page 12). Appellants further state that the reset
signal “holds the components of the integrated circuit in a
defined state when the power supply voltage level drops below a
predetermined voltage” (id.). Additionally, Appellants assert
that the operations performed prior to the reset signal are not
repeated since the information related to those operations is
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