Appeal No. 2005-0342
Application No. 09/758,787
a color stage configured to receive at least the first, second, and
third sets of floating point values from the geometry stage and
further configured to calculate at least a primary vertex color based
thereon.
References
The references relied upon by the examiner are:
Nelson et al. (Nelson) 6,037,947 Mar. 14. 2000
(filed Oct. 16, 1997)
Suzuki et al. (Suzuki) 6,118,453 Sep. 12, 2000
(filed Dec. 19, 1996)
Goel 6,211,883 Apr. 03, 2001
(filed Aug. 27, 1997)
Hong et al. (Hong) 6,611,265 Aug. 26, 2003
(effectively filed Oct. 18, 1999)
Rejection at Issue
Claims 1, 4, 5, 7, 9 through 15 and 17 through 23 stand rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Suzuki in view of Nelson.2 Claims 8, 16
and 24 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Suzuki in
view of Nelson and Goel. Claim 27 stands rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
unpatentable over Suzuki in view of Nelson and Hong. Throughout the opinion
we make reference to the brief and the answer for the respective details thereof.
2 This rejection is set forth on pages 2 through 6 of the Final office action dated September 29,
2003. We note that page 3 of the appeal brief erroneously identifies claims 8, 16 and 24 through
27 in this rejection.
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