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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17          
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     ____________                                     
                    Ex parte THOMAS M. SIEP and RONALD E. STAFFORD                    
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2000-1690                                 
                              Application No. 08/697,8081                             
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before BARRETT, KRASS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 1-18, which are all of the claims pending in            
          the present application.                                                    
               We reverse.                                                            
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention is directed to a network of processing           
          devices that communicate between one another based on the                   
          presence of a master processing device.  The processing devices             

               1  Application for patent filed August 30, 1996.                       




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