Appeal No. 96-2445
Application 08/289,801
shifting operation claimed is provided by the shifting
capabilities immediately preceding or associated with the
instruction buffer 54 in the various portions of Figure 2. In
contrast, the multiplex network 52 in Figure 3 of Boufarah
does not perform the required shifting operations “within” the
associated instruction buffers 36 or 38 above it in Figure 3.
Any shifting operations that may be attributed to the
multiplex network 52 in this figure clearly occur after but
not contemporaneous or within either of the instruction
buffers 36 and 38. Inasmuch as there are no structural
figures comparable to Figure 3 of Boufarah in Rasbold, the
written description portion of Rasbold relied upon by the
examiner as to this feature does not appear to us to teach
the subject matter of the noted shifting operation clause in
each independent claim on appeal.
For his part, the examiner's position as to this feature
appears to generally relate only to a time sequential or
serial instruction sequencing operations. That each
respective reference may in some manner serially shift
instructions in time is not necessarily dispositive of the
requirement to meet the claimed feature of serially shifting
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