Appeal No. 1997-1416
Application 08/277,386
decreasing a value of a second most significant byte
corresponding to said second word in response to said second
borrowing condition;
subtracting said first most significant byte from said
second most significant byte to obtain a first result; and
converting said first result into proper thermometer code
format.
No references are relied on by the examiner.
The following rejections are on appeal before us:
1. Claims 17-29 and 45-57 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C.
§ 101 as being directed to non-statutory subject matter in the
form of a mathematical algorithm.
2. Claims 17-29 and 45-57 also stand rejected under 35
U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph, as failing to particularly
point out and distinctly claim the invention.
3. Claims 17-29 and 45-57 stand provisionally rejected
under the judicially created doctrine of double patenting over
the claims of Application No. 07/954,133 . 1
Rather than repeat the arguments of appellants or the
1Application 07/954,133 is a parent application to this
application on appeal. The parent application has since
issued as U. S. Patent No. 5,699,287 granted on December 16,
1997.
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