Appeal No. 1997-0923
Application No. 08/400,414
function of one or more of the input values," (3) "producing a
Boolean result value," and (4) "conditionally writing the
result value in an instruction-specified location."
Additionally, it is unclear to say that the result value
is conditionally written "if the Boolean condition value is a
second instruction-specified state" (last subparagraph of
claim 21) when no first instruction-specified state has been
defined for the condition value; the first instruction-
specified state is for the result value. Furthermore, it
seems misdescriptive to say that the condition value "is a
second instruction-specified state"; the condition value is
obtained by performing an instruction-specified function on
input data. According to the discussion of appellants' table
3, the conditional writing of the result value depends on the
state of the result value, not on the instruction nor the
condition value.
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 both the anticipation rejection of
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