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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte STEPHEN R. CORNABY and TRACY D. HARMER
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Appeal No. 1999-2412
Application No. 08/553,024
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HEARD: August 15, 2001
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Before KRASS, BARRETT and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-57, all of the
pending claims.
The invention is directed to the operation of a mass memory storage peripheral
computer device, such as a hard disk drive connected to a host computer. More
particularly, whereas the conventional approach was to store a loadable device driver
in a separate ROM IC, requiring updates of the loadable device driver within ROM to be
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