Appeal No. 96-3762
Application No. 08/245,179
absence of further limitations which require more than merely
processing input.
Figure 5 of Loopik shows a data base 62 for providing
data to a test program generator 64, which meets the claimed
"storing means." Although Loopik does not state that the data
base stores data which is represented as a separate
declarative specifi-ation, the definition given by appellants
(specification, page 5) for "separate declarative
specification" simply requires a data base. Accordingly, the
data of Loopik's data base appears to be represented as a
separate declarative specification.
Each independent claim recites "data representing a
processor instruction set and resources" and "the declarative
specification being a representation of relationships between
semantic entities associated with each instruction and between
said semantic entities and said processor resources." As
stated above, the circuit assembly can be considered a
processor, but only if no further claim limitations require
more than merely processing data. The second paragraph, as
quoted above, further distinguishes the processor.
Accordingly, whether the circuit assembly of Loopik can serve
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