Appeal No. 96-4033
Application No. 08/086,354
§ 103 requires us to presume that the artisan has full knowledge
of the prior art in his field of endeavor, In re Deminski, 796
F.2d 436, 442, 230 USPQ 313, 315 (Fed. Cir. 1986), it would have
been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art to which the
invention pertains to perform the above step after fetching the
next instruction or the branch target instruction.
Whereas we will sustain the rejection of claim 11 over
Lee and dependent claims 13-20 are not separately argued, we will
sustain the rejection of claims 13-20 over Lee.
Because the examiner has made no specific showing of
unpatentability of dependent claim 21, and appellants have shown
that Lee does not teach or suggest either of the two elements
added by the claim to the subject matter of claim 11 from which it
depends, we will not sustain the rejection of claim 21.
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