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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18          
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                          Ex parte FRANSISCUS W. SIJSTERMANS                          
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                                 Appeal No. 2003-1430                                 
                              Application No. 09/414,4581                             
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before DIXON, SAADAT and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.           
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 1-9, which are all of the claims pending in             
          this application.                                                           
               We reverse.                                                            
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellant’s invention is directed to a vector processor for            
          executing vector instructions through conditional execution that            

               1  Application for patent filed October 7, 1999, which claims the      
          foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of European Patent    
          Office (EPO) Application No. 98203397.9, filed October 9, 1998.             




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