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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PATRICE EUDELINE, FRANCK GANSMANDEL, and PATRICE TOILLON
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Appeal No. 2002-1257
Application No. 08/913,523
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HEARD: FEBRUARY 3, 2004
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Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 11-13, 15, 18, and 19. Claims 1-10 have been canceled,
and claims 14, 16, 17, and 20 have been indicated to be allowable
by the Examiner subject to being rewritten in independent form.
The claimed invention relates to a time-multiplexed bus
management process in which facilities (rigs) that are linked by
the bus are assigned instants of time in which information can be
transmitted. If any of the rigs has no new information or has
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