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                      THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                    
              The opinion in support of the decision being entered today              
               (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and               
                      (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 KOICHI INOUE                                
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                                 Appeal No. 1997-2844                                 
                              Application No. 08/242,881                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 6, which are all of the claims                
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellant's invention relates to a hysteresis circuit                  
          which varies a threshold level for inverting the condition of               
          an output of a comparator according to the condition of the                 






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