The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte STEPHEN L. BASS and ROHIT BHATIA
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Appeal No. 2004-1629
Application No. 09/507,204
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, KRASS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-21, which are all of the claims pending in
this application.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention is directed to a method and apparatus
for maximizing instruction execution efficiency of a
microprocessor’s pipeline data by preserving the stalled data.
In speed critical pipeline stages, the data is stored in a
deferred stall register after the data is allowed to propagate
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