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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte J. RICHARD AYLWARD
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Appeal No. 2002-1689
Application No. 08/796,285
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HEARD: MARCH 5, 2003
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Before FLEMING, SAADAT, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
LEVY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner's final rejection of claims 30-321.
BACKGROUND
Appellants' invention relates to surround sound channel
encoding and decoding. An understanding of the invention can be
derived from a reading of exemplary claim 30, which is reproduced
as follows:
1 The rejection o claims 31 and 32 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) has been
withdrawn b the examiner. Claims 31 and 32 have been indicated (answer, page
5) as being objected to as dependent from a rejected base claim.
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