Appeal No. 1998-2661 Application 08/633,267 dependent upon a rejected base claim, but further indicating it would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Representative claim 1 is reproduced below: 1. A processor comprising: a set of N physical rename registers; and circuitry for pre-assigning one of said N physical rename registers to an instruction before said one of said N physical rename registers is available to receive a result of said instruction. The following references are relied upon by the examiner: Sato 5,261,062 Nov. 9, 1993 Kau et al. (Kau) 5,491,829 Feb. 13, 1996 Deosaran et al. (Deosaran) 5,590,295 Dec. 31, 1996 (filed June 7, 1995) Claims 1, 2, 13 and 16 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. � 102(e) as being anticipated by Kau. The examiner has extended the teachings and suggestions of Kau to reject claims 3 through 7 under 35 U.S.C. � 103. Finally, the examiner rejects all claims on appeal, claims 1 through 16, 18 and 19 under 35 U.S.C. � 103. As evidence of obviousness, the 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007