Appeal 2007-1469
Application 10/035,579
STATEMENT OF CASE
Appellant appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a final rejection of
claims 1-37. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
Appellant invented systems and methods for performing a floating
point square root with embedded status information associated with the
floating point operand. (Specification [002]).
Representative independent claim 1 under appeal reads as follows:
1. A system for providing a floating point square root, comprising:
an analyzer circuit configured to determine a first status of a
first floating point operand based upon data within the first floating
point operand; and
a results circuit coupled to the analyzer circuit and configured
to assert a resulting floating point operand containing the square root
of the first floating point operand and a resulting status embedded
within the resulting floating point operand.
The Examiner rejected claims 1-37 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a).
The prior art relied upon by the Examiner in rejecting the claims on
appeal is:
Lynch US 6,009,511 Dec. 28, 1999
Appellant contends that the claimed subject matter would not have
been obvious. More specifically, Appellant contends Lynch fails to disclose
an embedded status because the tag of Lynch is separate from the operand
(Br. 8-11). Further, Appellant contends there is no motivation to modify
Lynch to yield the claimed invention. (Br. 11-16).
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