The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte EDWARD W. POWELL, DOUGLAS C. BUHLER,
and DAVID A. BURGOON
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Appeal No. 2006-1595
Application No. 09/798,484
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and MACDONALD Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s rejection of claims 1-23, which constitute all the claims pending in this
application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a simulator that simulates hardware
designs. Specifically, the invention automatically specifies the configuration of
mixed-language models to be simulated. The mixed-language model comprises
at least one model written in a source code language and a model written in a
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