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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 28
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte AMER A. HASSAN
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Appeal No. 2000-1900
Application No. 08/669,937
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ON BRIEF
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Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 3, 4, 7, 9-12, and 14-21. Claim 8 has been canceled
and claims 2, 5, 6, and 13 have been indicated to be allowable
subject to being rewritten in independent form to include all of
the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
The claimed invention relates to a method and apparatus for
decoding digitally encoded communication signals transmitted over
a fading channel. More particularly, a sequence of test bits are
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