The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 22 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte SHIYU GO ____________ Appeal No. 1998-1895 Application No. 08/425,990 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the rejection of claims 1-6, 8-10, 12-19, 26-33 and 79-86. We reverse. BACKGROUND The invention at issue in this appeal relates to compressive image encoding and decoding. Compression is essential to efficient storage and transmission of digitizedPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007