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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RICHARD T. BEHRENS, LI DU, WILLIAM G. BLISS,
DAVID E. REED and MARK S. SPURBECK
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Appeal No. 1999-1449
Application 08/640,351
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1 and 3-18, all the claims pending in the present
application. Claims 2, 19 and 20 have been cancelled.
The invention relates generally to a sampled amplitude read
channel for reading discrete time sample values (Xk) (25)
generated by sampling an analog read signal (19) from a read head
positioned over a magnetic read medium (18). See figure 3, and
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