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          Appeal No. 2003-2108                                                        
          Application No. 08/881,123                                                  

          never outputted to “subsequently deactivate the generated                   
          acknowledgment signal if an access actuation signal is                      
          deactivated” (claims 1 and 15).  For this reason, the                       
          anticipation rejection of claims 1 and 15 is reversed.                      
               Turning to claim 2, if the acknowledgment signal and the               
          access request signal in Craft are the same signal, then we agree           
          with the appellant’s arguments (brief, page 10; reply brief,                
          pages 4 and 5) that Craft can not “generate and transmit the                
          access request signal to said memory controller in response to              
          the generation of the corresponding acknowledgment signal.”                 
          Thus, the anticipation rejection of claim 2 is reversed.                    
               The anticipation rejection of claim 5 is reversed because we           
          agree with the appellant’s arguments (brief, pages 11 and 12;               
          reply brief, pages 5 and 6) that Craft does not disclose                    
          “deactivating the acknowledgment signal after the access                    
          actuation signal is deactivated” because the two noted signals              
          are a combined signal in Craft.                                             
               The anticipation rejection of claims 6, 16 and 17 is                   
          reversed because Craft does not disclose activating an                      
          acknowledgment signal after generating an access actuation signal           
          (brief, pages 11 and 12).  As indicated supra, the two signals              
          are combined into a single signal in Craft.                                 
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