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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte WEI-MUN CHU, SUDHAKAR R. GOURAVARAM
and SON NGUYEN
Appeal No. 2002-0286
Application No. 09/113,995
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, BARRETT and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-30, all of the pending claims.
The invention is directed to integrated circuit design. In
particular, in a technique for the placement and routing of
circuits during an integrated circuit design, a single cell
includes both a signal processing circuit and a buffer circuit
for buffering a signal external to the integrated circuit in
which the cell is included. This is said to result in a
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