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          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          was not written for publication and is not binding precedent                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. 13              

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                           Ex parte ROBERT L. CAULK, JR.,                             
                                HIDETAKA MAGOSHI and                                  
                                  KEVIN L. DABERKOW                                   
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                                Appeal No. 1999-0168                                  
                               Application 08/540,349                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before RUGGIERO, LALL, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection              
          of claims 1-16, which are all of the claims pending in the                  
          application.                                                                
               The claimed invention relates to the processing of                     
          exceptions such as interrupts in a microprocessor-based                     

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