Appeal No. 96-4184
Application No. 08/159,346
Reference is made to the briefs and the answers for the
respective positions of the appellant and the examiner.
OPINION
The obviousness rejections of claims 65 through 67 and
108 are reversed.
According to the examiner (Answer, page 4), Cornaby
discloses "registers connected in a loop (col. 6, line 61, et
seq.)," but does not "specifically disclose rotating the bits
in each data register within the loop."
The examiner is of the belief (Answer, page 4) that
Meltzer discloses data registers "connected in a loop (col. 8,
line 42, et seq.) and the bits of the data registers being
rotated within the loop (col. 8, line 54, et seq.)."
Based upon the teachings of Meltzer, the examiner
concludes (Answer, page 4) that "[i]t would have been obvious
to one of ordinary skill in the art at the time of Appellant’s
invention to include Meltzer’s teaching of data rotation into
the Cornaby system, because such would increase the
versatility of the Cornaby system by allowing for shifting of
data amongst data registers."
Appellant argues (Supplemental Reply Brief, page 3) that:
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