The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte ROBERT L. CAULK, JR., HIDETAKA MAGOSHI and KEVIN L. DABERKOW __________ Appeal No. 1999-0168 Application 08/540,349 __________ ON BRIEF __________ 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 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007