Appeal No. 96-1621
Application No. 08/194,899
Blaner et al. (Blaner) 5,214,763 May 25,
1993
Minagawa et al. (Minagawa), "Pre-Decoding Mechanism For
Superscalar Architecture," IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Communications, Computer and Signal Processing, Vol. 1, Canada
(May 9-10, 1991) pp. 21-24.
Claims 19, 20, 22 through 25 and 27 through 42 stand
rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as unpatentable over Blaner in
view of Minagawa.
Reference is made to the many briefs and answers for the
respective positions of appellants and the examiner.2
OPINION
2Previous rejections of the claims under 35 U.S.C. 103
based on Blaner and Hotta and Blaner and Johnson have been
withdrawn by the examiner in subsequent answers, the second
supplemental answer of May 14, 1996 (Paper No. 19) first
indicating the present and sole rejection remaining in the
application for our consideration on appeal. Based on the new
ground of rejection in the second supplemental answer,
appellants amended some of the claims in the third reply brief
of June 17, 1996 (Paper No. 20), the amended claims 19, 25,
29, 30, 33, 35 and 37, together with claims 20, 22 through 24,
27, 28, 31, 32, 34, 36 and 38 through 42, as they appear in
the appendix to the principal brief, being the claims now on
appeal. Thus, the second and third supplemental answers,
together with the third and fourth reply briefs, contain the
issues and the arguments most relevant to this appeal.
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