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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 35
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MANOHAR MURTHY, JOHN F. WAKERLY and ARTHUR I. LAURSEN
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Appeal No. 2000-2282
Application 08/713,046
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 25-31. Claims 1-24 have been cancelled.
The invention relates to the monitoring of packet traffic
arriving at the bridges and routers. See Appellants’
specification, page 1, lines 3-13. Appellants disclose that
according to the invention, monitoring of any or all network
segments on a multi-port bridge or router may be carried out from
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