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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29              
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                      ____________                                     
                   Ex parte THOMAS J. HOLMAN and ANDREW V. ANDERSON                    
                                      ____________                                     
                                  Appeal No. 2003-1111                                 
                              Application No. 09/164,0881                              
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                                        ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before JERRY SMITH, SAADAT, and NAPPI, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                      
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                  
          rejection of claims 1-30, which are all of the claims pending in             
          this application.                                                            
               We reverse.                                                             
                                      BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention is directed to a method and apparatus             
          for tracking the state of a page in a memory device which has at             
          least a dependent bank structure.  Attribute entries of a page               

               1  Application for patent filed September 30, 1998.                     




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