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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 24           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                              Ex parte ANDRES R. TEENE                                
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2001-0632                                  
                             Application No. 08/650,248                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     
          Before THOMAS, KRASS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-12, all of the pending claims.                                     
               The invention is directed to various embodiments for                   
          eliminating scan hold time failures of a scan chain.                        
               Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:           
          1.  A method for eliminating scan hold time failures of a                   
          scan chain comprising the steps of:                                         

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