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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte GEORGE MCNEIL LATTIMORE, DONALD GEORGE MIKAN JR.,
JOSE ANGEL PAREDES and GUS WAI-YAN YEUNG
Appeal No. 2002-0140
Application No. 09/435,864
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-4, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15 and 17. Claims 5, 8, 10-13, 16 and
18 stand allowed by the examiner.
The invention is directed to multi-staged circuits which use
multi-clocks for timing between stages. These circuits have an
undeterminable clock underlap problem brought about by
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