Ex parte HORSTMANN et al. - Page 1




                    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          not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13              
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                               Ex parte JENS HORSTMANN                                
                                    and YOON KIM                                      
                                    _____________                                     
                                Appeal No. 1997-3241                                  
                               Application 08/442,726                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    
          Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 15, 16 and 17.  Claims 1-14 have been canceled.                      
               The invention relates to a Translation Lookaside Buffer                
          (TLB) which utilizes a Least-Recently-Used (LRU) algorithm for              
          determining the replacement of data.  On page 8 of the                      


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