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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          written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 15                  

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte LOTFI BENMOHAMED,                               
                                SUBRAHMANYAM DRAVIDA,                                 
                             PARAMASIVIAH HARSHAVARDHANA,                             
                                    WING CHEONG LAU                                   
                                          and                                         
                                   AJAY KUMAR MITTAL                                  
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                                Appeal No. 2002-2288                                  
                             Application No. 09/198,727                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before LEE, MOORE, and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final                 
          rejection of claims 1-42, which are all of the pending claims.              
               The appellants have indicated (Brief, page 3) that, for the            
          purposes of this appeal, the claims will stand or fall together.            
          Consistent with this indication, Appellant has made no separate             
          arguments with respect to the remaining claims.  Accordingly, all           
          the claims will stand or fall together, and we will select claim            
          XX, the broadest independent claim as representative of all of the          





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