Appeal No. 96-1014 Application 08/032,530 processor or processors according to said stored indication on an instruction by instruction basis. The examiner relies on the following prior art patents: Jaswa 4,733,353 March 22, 1988 Kametani 5,107,420 April 21, 1992 (filed August 13, 1987) Claims 23-44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kametani and Jaswa. We refer to the Final Rejection (Paper No. 20), the Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 26) (pages referred to as "EA__"), the [First] Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 28) (pages referred to as "SEA__"), and the [Second] Supplemental Examiner's Answer (Paper No. 28 on paper, but No. 30 on file wrapper) (pages referred to as "2dSEA__") for a statement of the examiner's position. We refer to the Appeal Brief (Paper No. 25) (pages referred to as "Br__"), the Reply Brief (Paper No. 27) (pages referred to as "RBr__"), the Supplemental Reply Brief (Paper No. 29) (pages referred to as "SRBr__"), and the Second Supplemental Reply Brief (Paper No. 31) (pages referred to as "2dSRBr__") for a statement of appellant's position. - 3 -Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007