Appeal No. 96-2445 Application 08/289,801 instructions within an instruction buffer. The examiner's position appears to rely upon shifting operations that may fairly be attributed to the operation of the circuits within each reference outside of but not within an instruction buffer. Therefore, in view of the foregoing, the decision of the examiner rejecting independent claims 9 and 12 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 must be reversed. As such, the rejection of the respective dependent claims of these claims also cannot be sustained. 6Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007