The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte CHARLES ANDREW MCLAUGHLIN
and ALONGKORN KITAMORN
Appeal No. 2000-1513
Application No. 08/829,088
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-20, 23-25 and 27-30.
The invention is directed to a method of isolating a fault
condition on a PCI (peripheral component interconnect) bus. The
invention is succinctly described by independent claim 1,
reproduced as follows:
-1–
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