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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 32
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MIZANUR M. RAHMAN, FRED C. SABERNICK, JEFF A.
SPROUSE, MARTIN J. GROSZ, PETER FU, and RUSSELL M. RECTOR
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Appeal No. 1999-0320
Application No. 08/426,751
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ON BRIEF
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Before URYNOWICZ, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative
Patent Judges.
URYNOWICZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claim 13, the
only claim pending in the application.
The invention pertains to a request pipeline for coupling
a microprocessor to a shared bus. Claim 13 reads as follows:
13. A request pipeline for pipelining requests from a
microprocessor external to the microprocessor, the request
pipeline comprising:
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