The relevant portion of the final rejection starts at page 28. The examiner is generalizing kato/ledzius. While there are two clocks (clock 1 and 2) where both are physically located in separate places, clock 2 is used to clock both the CPU and the I/O while in the 336 two isolated clocks are used to independently clock the CPU and the I/O. The examiner sees two separate clocks and incorrectly concludes that the clocking aspect of the 336 is obvious but it isn't.

For whatever reason he doesn't seem to understand that clock 1 has to clock the CPU and clock2 the I/O. Moreover the 2nd clock is not fixed and will vary when the ring oscillator varies.

I am pissed with the examiner and Moore for not being able to get this straightened out.

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