Appeal No. 96-3762
Application No. 08/245,179
support of the rejections, and to the appellants' brief (Paper
No. 10, filed February 26, 1996) for the appellants' arguments
thereagainst.
OPINION
We have carefully considered the claims, the applied
prior art references, and the respective positions articulated
by the appellants and the examiner. As a consequence of our
review, we will reverse the obviousness rejection of claims 1
through 15.
The claims are drawn to a test program generator and
method for creating test programs "for checking the operation
of a hardware processor design." A processor, as broadly
defined, is merely a device which processes input data.
Loopik, the primary reference, discloses a test program
generator for circuit assemblies, where "circuit assembly"
refers to "a circuit board and also . . . smaller assemblies
of components, such as multi-chip modules, designed to be
mounted on a circuit board" (Loopik, column 1, lines 5-10).
Since circuit boards process input data, "processor," as
broadly defined, encompasses a circuit assembly, in the
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