Appeal No. 96-2499
Application No. 08/204,521
those functions. Further, there is no teaching in Cocke that
the “status/control” registers are “flag registers,” as
claimed and now, the examiner is apparently contending not
only that the recited status/control registers of Cocke are
equivalent to the claimed flag registers but also that it
would have been obvious to employ static and dynamic flag
masks, as claimed. Clearly, the examiner is employing
impermissible hindsight in constructing this rejection and we
will not sustain such a rejection. Neither will we sustain
the rejection of claims 30, 31, 34, 35, 38, 39 and 45 through
47 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 since these claims depend from claims
28, 32, 36 and 44.
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