Ex Parte Steele - Page 4

                 Appeal 2007-2218                                                                                        
                 Application 10/035,595                                                                                  


                        Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish Huang                              
                 describes the specific features required by claims 2-5?                                                 
                        Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish Huang                              
                 describes the limitations required by claims 9-14?                                                      
                        Has Appellant shown that the Examiner has failed to establish Lynch                              
                 suggests “an analyzer circuit” and “a results circuit” as required by claim 1?                          

                                                FINDINGS OF FACT                                                         
                        The following Findings of Fact (FF) are shown by a preponderance of                              
                 the evidence.                                                                                           
                                                        Huang                                                            
                        1. The prior art Huang patent describes that “If the generation of                               
                 the result produces one of a predetermined set of special operands, a tag                               
                 generator also generates a tag having a predetermined tag value                                         
                 corresponding to the produced special operand.” (Col. 5, ll. 43-46).                                    
                        2. The prior art Huang patent describes that “each of the registers                              
                 116 and 118 has an operand value storage portion 116-1 and 118-1 and a tag                              
                 value storage portion 116-2 and 118-2.”  (Col. 6, l. 66 through col. 7, l. 2).                          
                        3. Figures 1-3 of Huang show a conventional arithmetic                                           
                 calculation circuit where one or more operands x and y are supplied from a                              
                 memory device, such as a register file 12 and the operands x and y are                                  
                 inputted to an arithmetic section 14. (Col. 1, ll. 40-42).                                              
                        4. In the conventional circuit, a zero value result (+ or -) is                                  
                 represented by an operand where (Col. 1, ll. 56-64):                                                    
                                sign= ‘0’ or ‘1’ bit,                                                                    

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