Appeal No. 1998-2661
Application 08/633,267
general purpose registers in this reference. Indeed, both
alternative uses of the buffer index 58 shown in Figures 4 and
5 and discussed at column 7 clearly indicate that the
corresponding relationship between the intermediate storage
buffers and the general purpose registers is done before the
result of a given instruction is obtained.
Kau is clearly in the same field of invention as
appellants' disclosed and claimed invention because this
reference deals with superscaler computer structure as
indicated earlier. Indeed, both also are concerned with
instruction execution and sequencing operations of an
instruction dispatcher and any bottlenecks associated
therewith. Because the intermediate storage buffers perform a
temporary storage operation analogous to the traditional
understanding the artisan has of physical rename registers,
the artisan would have clearly considered the teachings to be
analogous art within 35 U.S.C. § 103, appellants' arguments in
the brief and reply brief notwithstanding. Additionally,
because Kau teaches both his specific approach as well as the
recognition of the existence of prior art approaches utilizing
physical rename registers, when the teachings are properly
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