The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte STEFAN PFAB Appeal No. 2004-1020 Application No. 09/486,908 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, DIXON and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-7 and 9-14. Claims 8 and 15 have been indicated by the examiner as being directed to allowable subject matter and are not before us on appeal. The invention is directed to a data storage device. In particular, the invention seeks to speed up the offering of data that represent successor commands after branches in a computer -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007