Appeal No. 2000-1356
Application 07/979,772
sustain the obviousness rejection of claim 40 over Lee.
With respect to claim 42, Appellants merely make a
conclusory statement. Regardless, it is implicit in Lee that
a branch instruction while being predecoded and fed to the
processor must have associated with it information which is
capable of avoiding potential conflicts among the various
registers. Thus, we sustain the obviousness rejection of
claim 42 over Lee.
Regarding claim 43, Appellants offer no argument other
than a mere conclusory statement. For the same rationale as
claim 42, we sustain the obviousness rejection of claim 43.
Regarding claim 44, Appellants merely offer a conclusory
statement. As we noted above, while decoding and processing a
branch instruction, Lee must resolve the resource conflict as
the branch relates to the other instructions. Thus, we
sustain the obviousness rejection of claim 44 over Lee.
With respect to claim 45, Appellants merely make a
conclusory statement. Nevertheless, Lee’s branch instruction
could include a load instruction. Therefore, we sustain the
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