The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board
Paper No. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RICHARD J. DURANTE,
RODNEY R. ROZMAN and MICKEY L. FANDRICH
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Appeal No. 1999-0045
Application 08/688,235
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, KRASS, and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's final rejection of claims
1-4, 8-11, 15-18 and 22-26, which constitute all the claims on appeal.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method for reducing the power consumed by a micro controller in a flash
memory device, comprising the steps of:
receiving a user command over a host bus and storing the user command in an
operation queue;
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