The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte BYUNG-JOON LEE ________________ Appeal No. 2001-1573 Application 08/958,844 ________________ HEARD: AUGUST 14, 2002 ________________ Before KRASS, LALL and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. LALL, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the Examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-9, all pending claims in this application. According to Appellant (brief at pages 3 and 4), the invention relates to a magnetic disk drive and, in particular, to a method for improving the performance of a read cache for a hard -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007