The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte FREDERIC BOUTAND, JASON JONES, MARC COUVRAT, OLIVER MOUGENOT and MANSOOR A. CHISHTIE ________________ Appeal No. 1999-0153 Application No. 08/488,394 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before RUGGIERO, LALL, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claim 1, the sole claim in the application. The claimed invention relates to a test circuit for controlling the testing of a circuit having portions which use 11Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007