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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              written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26                                                               


                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                            Ex parte AKIRA TSUKIHASHI                               
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                               Appeal No. 2004-0507                                 
                            Application No. 09/476,862                              
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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         Before RUGGIERO, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.           
         RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of          
         claims 3-12, which are all of the claims pending in the present            
         application.  Claims 1 and 2 have been canceled.                           
              The claimed invention relates to the recording of data which          
         is sent at a slower data transmission speed than the data                  
         processing speed at which data is written on to a disk.                    
         Operation of a recording data processing circuit is suspended by           
         a control circuit until the amount of received data temporarily            




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