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           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           was not written for publication and is not binding precedent                            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. 41            
                          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                
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                              BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                   
                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                          
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                                 Ex parte GRAHAM D. TATTERSALL                                     
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                                       Appeal No. 1998-1903                                        
                                   Application No. 08/353,258                                      
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                                    HEARD: November 29, 2000                                       
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           Before HAIRSTON, GROSS, and LEVY, 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 8, 11 through 15, 17, and 21.                             
           Claims 18 through 20 and 22 have been allowed, and claims 9,                            
           10, and 16 have been objected to as depending from rejected                             
           base claims.                                                                            
                 Appellant's invention relates to a pattern recognition                            
           device and method of training such a device in which the input                          
           digital signal values are encoded.  The code used either is                             






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