Ex Parte NOHL et al - Page 1




               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 13           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                      Ex parte CRAIG R. NOHL and B. IVAN STROM                        
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2001-1009                                  
                             Application No. 08/901,304                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   


               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-9 and 17-23, all of the pending claims.                            
               The invention pertains to optical character recognition                
          (OCR).  In particular, whereas conventional recognition                     
          techniques for numerical entities treated each digit of a number            
          as equally important, the instant invention recognizes that in              

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