Appeal No. 1998-1113
Application 08/533,878
after the instruction are executed. It does not, however,
disclose any relationship between the order in which an
instruction appearing before or after the STBAR instruction
and the STBAR instruction itself is executed.
Claims 1, 4, and 7 clearly recite limitations on the
order of execution of the ordered store/load instruction and
store/load instructions appearing before or after the ordered
instruction. 3
As the examiner has failed to recognize and account for
the differences as printed out above, the rejection of claims
1, 4, 7, and any claims depending therefrom cannot be
sustained.
For these reasons, the rejection of claims 1-2, 4-5, and
7-8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 is reversed.
REVERSED
3See lines 10-12 of claim 1; lines 10-12 of claim 4; and
lines 9-20 of claim 7.
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