Ex parte HECHT et al. - Page 1




                    THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                      

               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not 
               written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding        
               precedent of the Board.                                                
                                                                 Paper No. 16         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                      Ex parte DAVID L. HECHT and L. NOAH FLORES                      
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                                 Appeal No. 1997-2690                                 
                              Application No. 08/532,040                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before HAIRSTON, JERRY SMITH, and GROSS, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 5, which are all of the claims                
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellants' invention relates to a record for storing                  
          encoded digital information.  The record includes a self-                   
          clocking data code pattern of glyphs for encoding the                       






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