Ex Parte SCHULTZ et al - Page 1



          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                    publication and is not binding precedent of the Board             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. 11              
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                           Ex parte MARK ALAN SCHULTZ AND                             
                                GREG ALAN KRANAWETTER                                 
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0739                                  
                             Application No. 09/319,763                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before RUGGIERO, BLANKENSHIP, and NAPPI, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 1-8, which are all of the claims pending in the present              
          application.                                                                
               The claimed invention relates to a system and method for               
          processing MPEG based compressed data.  The compressed data is              
          decompressed and data-reduced by a subsampling network and                  
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