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          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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 HO CHONG LEE                                  
                                and MIKEL J. STANICH                                  
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                                Appeal No. 2003-1063                                  
                             Application No. 09/100,487                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.           
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 10,            
          11, 28, 29, 30, 35 and 41.  Claims 3-9, 12-18, 31-34, 36-40                 
          and 42-46 stand objected to as dependent from a rejected base               
          claim but allowable if rewritten in independent form.  Claims 19-           
          27 have been canceled.                                                      
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The appellants claim a method, apparatus and memory for                
          applying a transform to the grayscale commands of a first printer           
          so as to simulate the grayscale printing characteristics of a               


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