Appeal No. 1998-2661
Application 08/633,267
dependent upon a rejected base claim, but further indicating
it would be allowable if rewritten in independent form
including all of the limitations of the base claim and any
intervening claims.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A processor comprising:
a set of N physical rename registers; and
circuitry for pre-assigning one of said N physical rename
registers to an instruction before said one of said N physical
rename registers is available to receive a result of said
instruction.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner:
Sato 5,261,062
Nov. 9, 1993
Kau et al. (Kau) 5,491,829 Feb. 13,
1996
Deosaran et al. (Deosaran) 5,590,295 Dec. 31,
1996
(filed June 7,
1995)
Claims 1, 2, 13 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(e) as being anticipated by Kau. The examiner has
extended the teachings and suggestions of Kau to reject claims
3 through 7 under 35 U.S.C. § 103. Finally, the examiner
rejects all claims on appeal, claims 1 through 16, 18 and 19
under 35 U.S.C. § 103. As evidence of obviousness, the
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