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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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23              

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
                                                                                     

                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     

                              Ex parte KAZUO TANIGUCHI                                
                               and MASAHARU YOSHIMORI                                 
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2003-0450                                  
                               Application 09/394,0391                                
                                                                                     
                                HEARD: July 17, 2003                                  
                                                                                     
          Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from             
          the final rejection of claims 2-11, 13, and 19-30.  Dependent               


          1  Application for patent filed September 13 1999, entitled                 
          "Method and Circuit for Enabling a Clock-Synchronized Read-                 
          Modify-Write Operation on a Memory Array," which is a division of           
          Application 08/905,565, filed August 4, 1997, now U.S. Patent               
          5,996,052, issued November 30, 1999, which claims the foreign               
          filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese                   
          Application P08-218843, filed August 20, 1996.                              
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