Appeal No. 95-0933
Application 08/032,764
generally given their ordinary and customary meaning, unless
it appears from the specification or the file history that
they were used differently by the inventor. Carroll Touch,
Inc. v. Electro Mechanical Sys., Inc. 15 F.3d 1573, 1577, 27
USPQ2d 1836, 1840 (Fed. Cir. 1993). Thus, we find that
Appellants' claimed term, buffer bit, must be given the
meaning of a bit of data stored between operands to prevent
the propagation of a bit of data from flowing into bits of
another operand during arithmetic or logical operations.
On page 10 of the Examiner's answer, the Examiner states
that the Examiner agrees with the Appellant that Bertrand
fails to teach the claimed buffer bit. Upon our review of
Bertrand, we find that Bertrand fails to teach the buffer bit
stored between operands to prevent the propagation of a bit of
data from
flowing into bits of another operand during arithmetic or
logical operations as claimed.
In view of the foregoing, the decision of the Examiner
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