Appeal No. 96-2445
Application 08/289,801
references relied upon would have been properly combinable
within 35 U.S.C. § 103 from an artisan's perspective.
Our study of the claims on appeal indicates that the
subject matter of method independent claim 9 is mirrored in
apparatus independent claim 12 on appeal. The body of each
independent claim reflects subject matter and specific
elements previously recited in the preamble of each respective
claim including the loadability of instructions in parallel
into an associated instruction buffer. Claim 9 further
recites the feature of “serially shifting remaining
instructions within said associated instruction buffer.”
Appellants argue at page 6 of the brief that Rasbold does not
show or suggest in any way this feature, and also argue at two
locations on page 7 of the brief that Boufarah does not teach
or suggest the same feature. With this
thrice argued position of the appellants, we agree.
There is no teaching or suggestion or structural showing
of such feature in either reference including Figure 3 of
Boufarah, which figure appears to most structurally relate to
the disclosed and claimed invention of any of the figures of
the two references relied upon. As disclosed, this serial
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