Ex parte KRANTZ - Page 1




           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                     publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                               Ex parte JOSEPH F. KRANTZ                              
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                                 Appeal No. 1997-2242                                 
                              Application No. 08/084,370                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before BARRETT, RUGGIERO, and LEVY, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                     
          LEVY, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from                
          the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-3, which are all of              
          the claims pending in this application.                                     
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               The appellant's invention relates to a method of                       
          reorganizing the data on a RAID-4 or RAID-5 array in the                    
          absence of a disk.  An understanding of the invention can be                







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