Appeal No. 2004-1425
Application 10/113,506
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for controlling the access and storage of data in a
non-volatile memory device.
Representative claim 22 is reproduced as follows:
22. A method comprising:
receiving an encoded sequence of values by a non-volatile
memory device;
storing the encoded sequence of values in storage elements
of the non-volatile memory device; and
decoding the stored encoded sequences of values in a
decoding circuit within the non-volatile memory device.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Lawman 6,028,445 Feb. 22, 2000
Collins et al. (Collins) 6,378,072 Apr. 23, 2002
(filed Feb. 03, 1998)
Claims 22, 25, 31-34, 41-44 and 51-53 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure
of Lawman. Claims 22-26, 31-36, 41-46 and 51-53 stand rejected
under 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) as being anticipated by the disclosure
of Collins. Claims 27-30, 37-39 and 47-49 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness the examiner
offers Collins taken alone. We note that pending claims 40 and
50 do not appear in any of these rejections. Since claims 40 and
50 recite limitations similar to rejected claim 30, we assume the
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