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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 37
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte NAOKI ITO, JIRO SUGIURA, TSUTOMU IKEDA, MITSUAKI USUI
and MASAYUKI KOBAYASHI
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Appeal No. 1998-0223
Application No. 08/351,749
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, JERRY SMITH, and LALL, Administrative Patent
Judges.
LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. 134 from
the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1 to 8, 15 and 16.
Claims 9 to 14 have been indicated as allowed.
The present invention relates to a check-out device in a
supermarket for reading an article code recorded on an article
in a machine readable form, and performing registration of
sold articles on the basis of the read article code. The
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