Ex Parte Bartlett et al - Page 1



                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                       
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                                 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                       
                                              AND INTERFERENCES                                                           
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                    Ex parte ERIC JOHN BARTLETT, CARLOS FRANCISCO FUENTE,                                                 
                    NICHOLAS MICHAEL O’ROURKE, and WILLIAM JAMES SCALES                                                   
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                                                  Appeal 2006-2536                                                        
                                               Application 10/611,127                                                     
                                               Technology Center 2100                                                     
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                                             Decided: October 10, 2007                                                    
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                 Before ANITA PELLMAN GROSS, LANCE LEONARD BARRY, and                                                     
                 HOWARD B. BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                     
                 BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      

                                              DECISION ON APPEAL                                                          

                                          I. STATEMENT OF THE CASE                                                        
                         A Patent Examiner rejected claims 1-9.  The Appellants appeal                                    
                 therefrom under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a).  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C.                                
                 § 6(b).                                                                                                  

                                                     A. INVENTION                                                         
                         The invention at issue on appeal detects and preemptively applies                                
                 measures to ameliorate thrashing in a multi-requester storage system having                              




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