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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SHAWN ALAN WAKEFIELD, JIMMIE RAY SHAVER
and BRETT ALAN SLOAN
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Appeal No. 2002-2026
Application No. 09/620,424
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HEARD: April 3, 2003
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Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claim 11. Claims 1-10 have been canceled.
The invention relates to improving the read performance for
a disk drive utilizing redundant synchronization fields in a data
block used to store user data. See page 1 of Appellants'
specification. Figure 7 is a generalized flow chart for a MIS-
SYNC RECOVERY routine representative of programming stored in
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