Ex parte HURST et al. - Page 8




          Appeal No. 1997-0900                                                        
          Application 08/371,039                                                      



          earlier for reversing the rejection of claim 12 on appeal, the              
          bypassing feature of claim 9 is not taught or suggested among               
          the collective teachings of the references relied upon.  The                
          feature of dependent claim 10 of conditioning a nonlinear                   
          element to provide a linear transfer function in response to a              
          compression mode of a video signal prediction means is not                  
          taught or suggested by either reference relied upon by the                  
          examiner.                                                                   
               In view of the foregoing, inasmuch as we have sustained                
          only the rejection of claims 5, 7, and 11 within the rejection              
          of claims 1-3 and 5-12 of the claims on appeal, the decision                
          of the examiner rejecting these claims is affirmed-in-part.                 















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