THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for
publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 10
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JAMES C. CHEN and LIN SUNG HUI
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Appeal No. 1998-1601
Application No. 08/679,595
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, BARRETT and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 7, all of the
claims in the application.
The invention is directed to a method for scanning small documents, e.g., business
cards, by using a card reading kit. The card reading kit comprises a plastic board with a
plurality of blocks into which the small documents are inserted. All of the small documents
are scanned together and a master image file is generated and then processed by using a
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