Appeal No. 2003-0882 Page 2
Application No. 09/911,198
the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary claim 1,
which is reproduced as follows:
1. A circuit comprising:
an input terminal to receive an input signal;
an output terminal;
a latch programmable with a value, the latch to communicate
the input signal to the output terminal in response to the
circuit not being in a sleep mode and in response to the circuit
being in the sleep mode, furnish another signal to the output
terminal indicative of the value.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Jung et al. (Jung) 5,796,273 Aug. 18, 1998
Claims 1-11 and 17-20 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) as being anticipated by Jung.
Rather than reiterate the conflicting viewpoints advanced by
the examiner and appellants regarding the above-noted rejection,
we make reference to the examiner's answer (Paper No. 13, mailed
February 12, 2003) for the examiner's complete reasoning in
support of the rejection, and to appellants' brief (Paper No. 12,
filed August 27, 2002) and reply brief (Paper No. 14, filed
February 27, 2003) for appellants' arguments thereagainst. Only
should be “[a] concise explanation of the invention defined in the claims
involved in the appeal, which shall refer to the specification by page and
line number, and to the drawing, if any, by reference characters.” Appellants
are reminded that that the summary of the inventtion should be consistent with
the rule.
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