Appeal No. 2006-2521
Application No. 09/788,582
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method for transmitting a control signal on a bus, said control signal
having two signal states, said method comprising the steps of:
adjusting a voltage level of said control signal from a previous time
interval to indicate a first signal state; and
maintaining said voltage level of said control signal from the previous
time interval to indicate a second signal state.
The examiner relies on the following reference:
Tateishi 5,539,590 July 23, 1996
Claims 1-23 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by the
disclosure of Tateishi.
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the examiner, we make reference
to the briefs and the answer for the respective details thereof.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the subject matter on appeal, the rejection advanced
by the examiner and the evidence of anticipation relied upon by the examiner as support
for the rejection. We have, likewise, reviewed and taken into consideration, in reaching
our decision, the appellants’ arguments set forth in the briefs along with the examiner’s
rationale in support of the rejection and arguments in rebuttal set forth in the examiner’s
answer.
It is our view, after consideration of the record before us, that the disclosure of
Tateishi fully meets the invention as set forth in claims 1-23. Accordingly, we affirm.
Anticipation is established only when a single prior art reference discloses, expressly
or under the principles of inherency, each and every element of a claimed invention as
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