Appeal No. 96-1741
Application 08/160,111
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-93, which
constitute all the claims in the application. Appellants have
indicated that the appeal is withdrawn with respect to claims
26 and 65 [supplemental reply brief, page 4]. Accordingly,
this appeal now involves only claims 1-25, 27-64 and 66-93.
The final rejection of the claims under 35 U.S.C. §
112 was withdrawn in the initial examiner’s answer [page 10],
but a new rejection of some of the claims on this ground was
made in this answer [page 8]. The second supplemental answer
subsequently indicated that the new rejection under Section
112 had been withdrawn [page 3]. Thus, there are no longer
any pending rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 112.
In a third supplemental examiner’s answer, the examiner
indicated that a rejection of claims 2, 3, 6, 12, 13, 27-31,
41, 42, 45, 51, 52 and 66-70 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 had been
withdrawn [page 2].
The claimed invention pertains to a data processing
apparatus having an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) with three
separate multibit digital inputs. The ALU performs mixed
arithmetic and Boolean operations on the three inputs. A
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