Appeal No. 2003-0357
Application 09/123,307
the specific rationale set forth by the examiner for combining
the teachings of Engstrom and Basic PC 97 is nothing more than an
opinion by the examiner and is not supported by the applied prior
art [brief, pages 7-22].
The examiner responds that Basic PC 97 does have a clean
mode and a verbose mode. The examiner also responds that
Engstrom teaches two video buffers in which one buffer would
store the clean mode and the second buffer would store the
verbose mode. The examiner repeats his position that it would
have been obvious to the artisan to run the system startup of
Basic PC 97 in Engstrom’s computer system because such
implementation would provide selectable display modes capable of
conveniently and effectively presenting display images, which
provide to the user the enhanced functionality of the computer
system [answer, pages 3-8].
Appellants respond that the teachings of Basic PC 97 are
too vague to suggest to one skilled in the art to use first and
second video buffers in the manner recited in the independent
claims. Appellants assert that there is no suggestion to use
double buffers for low level startup programs as claimed.
Appellants reiterate that Engstrom teaches away from using double
buffering techniques as claimed. Finally, appellants reiterate
-7-
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007