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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               precedent of the Board.                                                
                                             Paper No. 24                             

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                             Ex parte LOUIS J. SHRINKLE                               
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                                Appeal No. 1998-0817                                  
                               Application 08/610,976                                 
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                                        ON BRIEF                                      
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          Before JERRY SMITH, 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 14-24.  Claims 1-13 have been canceled.                              
               The invention relates to controlling a frequency at which              
          data are written onto a disk in a disk drive system.  On page               
          6 of the application, Appellant discloses that figure 2 shows               


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