Ex parte ATSUMI 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          for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                    ____________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                    ____________                                      
                      Ex parte SHIGERU ATSUMI, HIRONORI BANBA                         
                                 and MASAO KURIYAMA                                   
                                    ____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 1997-4092                                  
                             Application No. 08/181,404                               
                                    ____________                                      
                              HEARD:  February 23, 2000                               
                                    ____________                                      
          Before, HAIRSTON, FLEMING and DIXON, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      




                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1                 
          through 26 and 30 through 51.                                               
               The disclosed invention relates to a nonvolatile                       
          semiconductor memory system that comprises a nonvolatile                    
          memory cell array divided into refresh blocks, and a flag cell              






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