The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte DOMINIQUE SAVIGNAC, FRANK WEBER and NORBERT WIRTH ____________ Appeal No. 2001-2459 Application No. 09/277,281 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before BARRETT, RUGGIERO 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, 4-7 and 10-12. Claims 2, 3, 8 and 9 have been cancelled. We reverse. BACKGROUND Appellants’ invention is directed to a circuit configuration for identifying contact failure during the testing of integrated circuits before being incorporated in a circuit board. If, for example, contact is not made with all the active “low” pins of anPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007