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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                                          for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20               

                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                        
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                         
                                                      AND INTERFERENCES                                                              
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                                                    Ex parte EINO JACOBS and                                                         
                                                              MICHAEL ANG                                                            
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                                                        Appeal No. 2001-0820                                                         
                                                     Application No. 09/128,832                                                      
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                                                              ON BRIEF                                                               
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               Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                  
               HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                



                                                      DECISION ON APPEAL                                                             
                       This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 21 through 24, 29 and 31 through 33.                     
                       The disclosed invention relates to a computer storage medium with a stream of stored                          
               instructions for execution on a digital data processing device.  The stream of instructions comprises                 
               at least one first uncompressed instruction that is a branch target, and at least one second                          
               compressed instruction following the branch target.                                                                   








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