Ex Parte Ait-Mokhtar 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                                 publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.  17                        
                                                                                                                          
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                      
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                                           Ex parte SALAH AIT-MOKHTAR,                                                     
                                   JEAN-PIERRE CHANOD and ERIC GAUSSIER                                                    
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                                                 Appeal No. 2005-0274                                                      
                                               Application No. 09/738,319                                                  
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                                                       ON BRIEF                                                            
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              Before THOMAS, KRASS and LEVY,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                                
              KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                          

                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                         

                     This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-8, and 10-20.                       
              Claim 9 has been cancelled and forms no part of this appeal.                                                 
                     The invention is directed to the generation of normalized representations of                          
              strings, e.g., sentences, and for providing translation information for translating a string                 
              from a first language to a second language.                                                                  



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