Appeal No. 2002-1395 Page 11
Application No. 08/789,702
We further find that the reference's computer system incorporates a reference to
the definition into a description of the circuit. Specifically, "[a] macro instantiation is
simply a reference to a macro name located at a place in the source code file at which
a segment of prestored microcode is to be substituted." Id. at ll. 34-37. Because the
macro instantiation references a macro name, and the macro definition associates the
macro name to a segment of microcode, the macro instantiations is a reference to the
macro definition (and to the segment of microcode). Therefore, we affirm the
anticipation rejection of claim 1 and of claims 4-28 and 32-51, which fall therewith.
Second, observing that claim 2 "is further limited over claim 1 by an 'identifying
step' and an 'incorporating step,'" (Appeal Br. at 30), the appellants allege, "none of the
prior art of record teaches this combination." (Id.)
Claim 2 specifies in pertinent part the following limitations: "identifying the
template call in the behavioral description of the circuit design; and . . . incorporating
the template behavioral description that corresponds to the template call into the
behavioral description of the circuit design." Giving the claim its broadest, reasonable
construction, the limitations require identifying the reference in the description of the
circuit and incorporating the definition that corresponds to the reference into the
description.
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