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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 KIMBLE DONG                                  
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                                Appeal No. 2004-1487                                  
                             Application No. 09/085,519                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   

               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-24, all the claims pending in the instant application.             
                                      Invention                                       
               The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for            
          reading out image signals from a CMOS image sensor.  It is                  
          desirable in image sensors to remove fixed pattern noise from the           
          signals that are processed from the pixels.  See page 1 of                  
          Appellant's specification.  A CMOS image sensor and readout                 





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