Appeal No. 96-4184
Application No. 08/159,346
a result of the amendment, the examiner withdrew the
indefiniteness rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 through 11, 13
through 34, 36 through 42, 44 through 64, 68 through 72, 76,
78 through 80, 96 through 107, 109, 110, 112 and 113 (paper
number 8). After considering appellant’s arguments (Brief,
pages 5 through 23), the examiner allowed claims 1, 2, 4
through 11, 13 through 34, 36 through 42, 44 through 64, 73
through 76, 78 through 107 and 111 through 113, and objected
to claims 68 through 72, 109 and 110 as being dependent upon a
rejected base claim, but indicated that they would be
allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of
the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Accordingly, claims 65 through 67 and 108 remain before us on
appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to the rotation of bits
in a plurality of data registers connected in a loop. The
plurality of data registers are in a data processing
apparatus.
Claim 65 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
65. A data processing apparatus comprising:
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