diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/annotation/AnnotationUseStyleCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/annotation/AnnotationUseStyleCheck.java
index 3f3d9283d..74975d59e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/annotation/AnnotationUseStyleCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/annotation/AnnotationUseStyleCheck.java
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ public final class AnnotationUseStyleCheck extends Check {
      * @param annotation the annotation token
      */
     private void checkTrailingComma(final DetailAST annotation) {
-        if (TrailingArrayComma.IGNORE == comma) {
+        if (comma == TrailingArrayComma.IGNORE) {
             return;
         }
 
@@ -405,18 +405,18 @@ public final class AnnotationUseStyleCheck extends Check {
      * @param ast the annotation token
      */
     private void checkCheckClosingParens(final DetailAST ast) {
-        if (ClosingParens.IGNORE == parens) {
+        if (parens == ClosingParens.IGNORE) {
             return;
         }
 
         final DetailAST paren = ast.getLastChild();
         final boolean parenExists = paren.getType() == TokenTypes.RPAREN;
 
-        if (ClosingParens.ALWAYS == parens
+        if (parens == ClosingParens.ALWAYS
             && !parenExists) {
             log(ast.getLineNo(), MSG_KEY_ANNOTATION_PARENS_MISSING);
         }
-        else if (ClosingParens.NEVER == parens
+        else if (parens == ClosingParens.NEVER
             && !ast.branchContains(TokenTypes.EXPR)
             && !ast.branchContains(TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_MEMBER_VALUE_PAIR)
             && !ast.branchContains(TokenTypes.ANNOTATION_ARRAY_INIT)