Appeal No. 1997-2382 Application 08/287,064 lar, Appellant argues that Gries does not disclose or suggest the claimed language of directly encoding a literal source code macroinstruction into a corresponding subroutine address with- out performing an intermediate step of extracting an op code of said macroinstruction as it is set forth in independ- ent claims 1 and 11. On page 4 of the answer, the Examiner states that the basis for the rejection was set forth in paragraphs 4 through 12 of the office action mailed November 2, 1995 (Paper No. 15). Turning to Paper No. 15, we note that the Examiner argues that Gries teaches directly encoding the source code into a subroutine address without extracting an op code. The Examiner points to Gries' page 245, first paragraph, and page 248, "Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions" section. Turning to page 245 of Gries, we fail to find that Gries teaches a means for directly encoding said literal source code macroinstruction into a corresponding subroutine address without performing an inter- 5Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007