Ex Parte Kobayashi - 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                                           and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                             

                                 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                        
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                                       BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                         
                                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                                              
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                                             Ex parte MASAYOSHI KOBAYASHI                                                         
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                                                     Appeal No. 2006-1497                                                         
               Application No. 09/770,017                                                                                         
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                                                           ON BRIEF                                                               
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               Before HAIRSTON, BLANKENSHIP, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.                                         
               HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                             

               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                                                 

                      This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 7, 10, 14, 22, 24 through 27 and 29.                   
               Claims 8, 11, 15 and 23 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would                   
               be allowable if rewritten in independent claim form including all of the limitations of the base                   
               claim and any intervening claims.                                                                                  
                      The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining whether                           
               predetermined conditions have been met for replacing a sub-tree structure of a tree structure with                 
               an equivalent table.                                                                                               









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