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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 28
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RICHARD L. COULSON and KNUT S. GRIMSRUD
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Appeal No. 2003-1505
Application No. 09/218,0371
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, GROSS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-34, which are all of the claims pending in
this application.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention is directed to optimizing execution of
requests for access to data storage locations on a disk based on
a rotational position of the disk relative to a position of a
read/write head of the storage device. By causing the host
1 Application for patent filed December 22, 1998.
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