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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
____________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
____________
Ex parte YUSUKE SHIMIZU, YOICHI UCHIDA, and SEIJI ADACHI
____________
Appeal No. 2002-1658
Application No. 08/922,339
____________
HEARD: May 8, 2003
____________
Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 4 through 11, 13, 15 through 22, 25, 27, 29,
31, and 32, which are all of the claims pending in this
application.
Appellants' invention relates to a program data distribution
method in which an identification code is transmitted with the
program data to the terminal and is used to obtain the decryption
key from a key server. Claims 10 and 11 are illustrative of the
claimed invention and read as follows:
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007