Appeal No. 97-1303
Application 08/160,300
pages 3 and 4 of the answer indicates the examiner admits that
Kawata does not specifically disclose the conditional move
operation between predetermined data and the result of an ALU
operation. As briefly stated at page 4, the examiner is of
the belief that the artisan would have found it obvious to
have modified Kawata's
teachings as “suggested by Kawata in Figure 1.” We find no
teaching or suggestion in the mere showing of Kawata's Figure
1
to justify from an artisan's perspective the alleged obvious
modification.
As noted by appellant in the brief, we note that the
limited focus of Kawata is upon sorting operations. The data
structure presented in portions of Figure 2 in Kawata is
directed to sorting operations as a type of instruction with
subinstruction fields for data comparison operations. There
is no other discussion of anything comparable to the type of
operations set forth in representative independent claim 1 on
appeal and in each succeeding independent claims 11 and 21 as
to this rejection.
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