Appeal No. 96-0635
Application 08/132,410
when they are determined to be erroneous. Since one of the
buffers in Johnson is a read-only store, there is no provision
in Johnson for reloading the instructions designated as
permanent when an instruction is determined to be erroneous.
There is no suggestion from the collective teachings of Day
and Johnson that the instruction loading should be
accomplished in the manner recited in independent claim 9, and
the examiner has not provided a reasonable rationale to
suggest the obviousness of the invention of claim 9.
Therefore, we do not sustain the rejection of claim 9 whether
based on Day alone or on the combination of Day and Johnson.
Since claims 10-18 all depend from claim 9, we also do
not sustain the rejection of any of these claims. The
decision of the examiner rejecting claims 9-18 is reversed.
REVERSED
JAMES D. THOMAS )
Administrative Patent Judge )
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