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today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FRANCESCO GOZZO and JOSEPH T. HIGGINS
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Appeal No.1998-0933
Application No.08/421,597
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ON BRIEF
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Before URYNOWICZ, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative
Patent Judges.
URYNOWICZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims
19-22.
The invention pertains to mail sorting. Claim 19 is
illustrative and reads as follows:
19. A method of exploiting correlated mail streams
when sorting mail to improve character recognition of the
address of a mail piece image, comprising the steps of:
creating a database for storing data based on
statistical relationships of selected parameters obtained
from the correlated mail streams;
processing mail piece images using optical character
recognition to recognize characters in the mail piece
image address;
selecting mail piece images with unassigned
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