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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PETER JOHN ATTERTON and BRIAN MICHAEL UNITT
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Appeal No. 2004-1537
Application No. 09/206,597
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, DIXON, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 2 through 6, 9, 12 through 14, 17
and 18.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and arrangement for transporting
packet communications traffic between first and second nodes in a communications packet
network carrying high priority traffic and low priority traffic. If a fault occurs on a path that
is normally used to transport the high priority traffic, then the method and arrangement
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