The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 Claims 12-19 and 26-29 stand withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a non-elected invention.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 aPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007