Appeal No. 96-1741
Application 08/160,111
left rotating said second multibit digital signal an amount
corresponding to said rotate control signal and supplying said
left rotated second multibit digital signal to said second
data input of said arithmetic logic unit;
a third data source supplying a third multibit digital
signal; and
a mask generator having a data input connected to said
third data source and a data output connected to said third
data input of said arithmetic logic unit, said mask generator
generating a multibit digital mask signal corresponding to
said third multibit digital signal.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Chu et al. (Chu) 4,785,393 Nov. 15, 1988
Pfeiffer et al. (Pfeiffer) 5,146,592 Sep. 08, 1992
Vassiliadis et al. (Vassiliadis) 5,299,319 Mar. 29, 1994
(filed Mar. 29,
1991)
Claims 1-25, 27-64 and 66-93 stand provisionally
rejected under the judicially created doctrine of obviousness-
type double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-97
of copending application Serial No. 08/160,298. Claims 1, 7-
11, 14-25, 32, 34-40, 46-50, 53-64, 71, 73-78 and 91-93 also
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
teachings of Chu and Vassiliadis. Finally, claims 79-90 also
stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
teachings of Chu, Vassiliadis and Pfeiffer.
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