The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. - 1 -Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007