Appeal No. 1997-0586
Application No. 08/243,559
for loading the program counter when jump instruction is
executed;” and ”a displacement field [RT] which contains the
second address and is otherwise not necessary [sic] used upon
execution.” Appellants argue [brief, pages 20 to 21], and we
agree, that “the jump instruction disclosed in the Kane
reference (at pages 3-1 to 3-16) does not provide any
information other than an operation code and a jump target
address. There is simply no suggestion in the Kane reference
of how a prediction of the jump target address can be
extracted from the jump instruction.” [Id. 20]. (Emphasis
added). Thus, we conclude that Kane does not cure the
deficiency noted above with the combination of Beckwith and
Johnson. Therefore, we do not sustain the obviousness
rejection of these claims over Beckwith, Johnson and Kane.
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