Appeal 2006-2911
Application 10/005,551
represents a circuit element said to illustrate the function of a multiplexer. (Br. 7;
Reply Br. 3). 2
Graphic from Appellants’ Brief Graphic Displayed on Wikipedia
The right column of the complete reproduction of the Wikipedia figure as
displayed on the Wikipedia website, shown above, reveals that Wikipedia equates
a multiplexer to a switch that selectively enables one of multiple inputs to a single
output.
Appellants’ reliance on this definition in fact gives more support to the
Examiner’s argument (Answer 5), which encompasses the complete definition as
shown in the Wikipedia graphic in the right column. We also find that the circuit
in Daniels “enables either the output of INCH block 12” (the increment/decrement
network, corresponding to I0 in the graphic) “or the output of TEMPH register 16”
(the temporary register, corresponding to I1 in the graphic) “onto ABH bus 10” (the
high-order address bus). (Daniels col.4, ll.47-54). Thus, the Wikipedia definition
2 Appellants rely only on the left half of the drawing figure in Wikipedia in their
Briefs.
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