The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent
of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARC TREMBLAY and WILLIAM JOY
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Appeal No. 2005-1800
Application No. 09/204,479
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HEARD: October 19, 2005
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Before DIXON, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1, 3 through 17, 19 through 21, 23, and 24,
which are all of the claims pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to instruction execution by a
processor. In particular, a functional unit executes an
instruction that operates on multiple registers in a register
file, one of which is explicitly identified and another of which
is implicitly identified based on the explicitly identified
register. Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and
it reads as follows:
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