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               today was not written for publication and is not                       
               binding precedent of the Board.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