Appeal 2007-1572
Application 09/726,831
make in the Briefs have not been considered and are deemed to be waived.
See 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii) (2004).2
ISSUE
The principal issue in the appeal before us is whether the Examiner
erred in combining Crocker with Nale and Reddy, because Crocker contrasts
its inventive system using a single memory module with the admitted prior
art’s use of internal and external memory devices.
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The Invention
1. Appellants invented a system for managing display data in a
computing device having a unified memory architecture (Specification 1).
2. The memory in Appellants’ device is controlled by display
logic, which manages and allocates the memory according to the display
mode, and is configured to change the display mode during operation of the
computing device (Specification 2).
3. The display logic is operable to change the color depth of the
display, or the level of resolution, or both, depending on either the
2 Appellants have not presented any substantive arguments directed
separately to the patentability of the dependent claims or related claims in
each group, except as will be noted in this opinion. In the absence of a
separate argument with respect to those claims, they stand or fall with the
representative independent claim. See In re Young, 927 F.2d 588, 590, 18
USPQ2d 1089, 1091 (Fed. Cir. 1991). See also 37 C.F.R. § 41.37(c)(1)(vii).
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