Ex Parte Vincent - Page 1


               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not     
               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.     


                  UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                           
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                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                              
                                AND INTERFERENCES                                     
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                              Ex parte YANNICK VINCENT                                
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                                Appeal No. 2005-0859                                  
                             Application No. 10/015,965                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before BARRETT, OWENS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from a rejection of claims 1-9, which are all           
          of the pending claims.                                                      
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The appellants claim a data processing system and terminal             
          comprising a hardware circuit for inverting an order of bits of a           
          word as a function of a value of a convention signal.  Claims 1             
          and 9 are illustrative:                                                     
          1.   A data-processing system, comprising:                                  
               a microprocessor [PRC];                                                
               a communication device [COM] communicating with an                     
          electronic module [MOD] intended to send a convention signal to             
          said microprocessor; and                                                    




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