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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 cellPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007