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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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Ex parte JEFFREY A. WILCOX
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Appeal No. 1999-1594
Application No. 08/491,467
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 25. In the Answer (page 4) the
examiner withdrew the rejection of claims 2 through 6, 11 through
17, 20, and 22 through 25. Accordingly, claims 1, 7 through 10,
18, 19, and 21 remain before us on appeal.
Appellant's invention relates to a redundant peripheral
device subsystem in which a controllable switch selectively
isolates two peripheral device busses or joins them into a single
peripheral device bus when a fault occurs in the controller
coupled one of the two busses. Claim 1 is illustrative of the
claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
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