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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 40              

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                              Ex parte VISHRAM P. DALVI                               
                                 and RODNEY R. ROZMAN                                 
                                      ___________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2002-1578                                 
                              Application No. 08/814,928                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before BARRETT, RUGGIERO, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.          
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 31-37, which are all of the claims pending in the present            
          application.  Claims 1-11, 20-25, and 30 have been canceled.                
          Claims 12-19 and 26-29 stand withdrawn from consideration as being          
          directed to a non-elected invention.                                        
               The claimed invention relates to a memory device which                 
          includes a status register for indicating the suspend status of a           
          programming operation.  On indication of the suspension of a                






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