Ex parte MOUGEAT 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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 38         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                       Ex parte PAUL MOUGEAT and MICHEL HARRAND                       
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                                 Appeal No. 1997-3842                                 
                              Application No. 08/385,074                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 12, 14 through 20, 22, 24                     
          through 26, 28 through 30, and 35 through 44, which are all of              
          the claims pending in this application.                                     
               Appellants' invention relates to an image predictor for                
          digital image processing which includes a single search memory              
          and plural read and write decoders which arrange the memory                 
          cells into independently readable blocks and independently                  
          writable blocks, respectively, such that each writable block                





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