The opinion in support of the remand being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 16
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 A. AUSLANDER and LARRY W. LOEN
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Appeal No. 1999-0041
Application No. 08/475,669
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ON BRIEF
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Before DIXON, BARRY, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the rejection of claims 2-5, 18, and 19. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to endian-oriented
computers. Big endian and little endian are two common
schemes for organizing data within the memory of a computer.
The former scheme stores the most significant byte of a word
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