Appeal 2007-1653
Application 10/791,945
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).4
ISSUE
The principal issue in the appeal before us is whether the Examiner
erred in holding that Parolari teaches the steps of “configuring,” “initiating,”
“accessing,” and “performing,” as recited in claims 1 and 16.
FINDINGS OF FACT
The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of
the evidence.
The Invention
1. Appellants invented a method and system for improved
performance in Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
Incremental Redundancy (IR) operations in a wireless receiver
(Specification 4-5).
2. Appellants’ system includes a system processor, a plurality of
IR processing module registers, and an IR processing module (Specification
5).
3. The system processor is operable to receive the soft decision
bits of a data block, to configure the plurality of IR processing module
registers, initiate operation of the IR processing module of the wireless
4 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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