Appeal No. 96-2739
Application 08/185,320
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the rejection of claims 7 through 9 and 15 through 18, all the
claims in the application, the claims having been twice
rejected. 2
Appellant's invention relates to a system for creating
and interpreting machine readable forms. The form may contain
regions of arbitrary text, arbitrary graphics, and fields.
The form generation portion of the system automatically
encodes information about the fields as the form is being
created, and integrates that encoded information into the
electronic and printed representations of the form. The forms
interpreter portion of the system may then read the form's
field description from the form itself and, based on this
description, interpret the form. By locating encoded
information about form fields directly on the form, the form
interpreter may be automatically programmed for that
particular form. The form may be structured in virtually any
2Appellants' notice of appeal indicates this appeal is from a final
rejection mailed March 15, 1995. That office action was not a final rejection,
however, the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences has jurisdiction under
35 U.S.C. § 134, Ex parte Lemoine, 46 USPQ2d 1420 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 1994).
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