Appeal No. 2000-1356
Application 07/979,772
dependent claims, we sustain the obviousness rejection of the
dependent claims 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, and 63 over Lee.
Regarding dependent claim 64, the claimed decode means
between the first and the second storage means is shown as 230
(fig. 4, and answer, page 7) by Lee. Therefore, we sustain
the obviousness rejection of claim 64 over Lee.
Claim 91
Contrary to Appellants’ arguments [brief, pages 22 and
23], we are persuaded by Examiner’s position [answer, pages 3
to 7] that in Lee, cache memory 112 does output the claimed
“at least two instructions from said plurality of instructions
in the same cycle along with said information.” See fig. 7,
where two instructions are outputted by the cache memory in
one cycle. In other respects, the discussion of claim 38
equally applies here. Consequently, we sustain the
obviousness rejection of claim 91 over Lee.
With respect to its dependent claim 182, despite
Appellants’
arguments [brief, pages 32 to 33], an artisan would have found
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