Appeal No. 1999-2614
Application No. 08/667,826
the Examiner has pointed to no disclosure in Grunewald that would
suggest any support for the Examiner’s assertion that Grunewald
discloses the generation of a combined command for setting a
register and executing an instruction as presently claimed. Our
interpretation of the disclosure of Grunewald coincides with that
of Appellants, i.e., while Grunewald describes the sending of
pixel data as an address to a look up table to output the
contents of the table at that particular address, we find no
disclosure of the generation of a combined set register and
execute command as claimed.
We have reviewed the Sone reference, applied by the Examiner
(Answer, page 4) to supply a teaching of generating plural
instructions including set register and execute instructions, and
we find no disclosure which would overcome the innate deficiency
of Grunewald disclosed above. As such, even assuming, arguendo,
that the skilled artisan would have been motivated to make the
Examiner’s proposed combination, the resulting system would not
possess the features present in the claims on appeal.
Further, even assuming the correctness of the Examiner’s
interpretation of the disclosure of Sone, we find no indication
as to how and in what manner Sone would be combined with
Grunewald. Although the Examiner has suggested the accomplishing
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