The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 35
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 NISHIMURA, SUNAO OGAWA,
YASUO YAMADA and AKIRA KANUMA
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Appeal No. 1997-2983
Application No. 08/482,792
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HEARD: September 14, 2000
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Before FLEMING, LALL, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-14. We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal is a single chip
microcomputer (MCU) featuring a system bus (SYSBUS), a
dedicated data bus (SDBUS), and a bank address bus (BABUS).
The SYSBUS is used to transfer normal addresses and data. The
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