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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SHAHIN HEDAYAT
and SURENDRA MANDAVA
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Appeal No. 1998-3331
Application No. 08/852,842
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the rejection of claims 1, 2, 4-17, 19, and 20. We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue in this appeal is a multiprocessor
architecture for digital signal processing. A digital signal
processor (DSP) is typically a chip optimized to handle
certain types of mathematical and control algorithms. Digital
filtering is one type of algorithm run on such a DSP.
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