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               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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               Ex parte CARL T. MICKELSON, SCOTT B. POWELL, and CHRIS G.              
                                       HORATTAS                                       
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                                 Appeal No. 1999-2555                                 
                              Application No. 08/503,625                              
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                                HEARD: January 25, 2001                               
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          Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 and 4 through 7, which are all of the                 
          claims pending in this application.                                         
               Appellants' invention relates to a flight simulator                    
          employing a replication of the hardware for the operational                 
          flight program processor and a software simulation of the                   
          remainder of the avionics simulation computer.  Claim 1 is                  







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