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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          publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                              Ex parte KENNETH G. LEIB                                
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                                Appeal No. 1998-1317                                  
                             Application No. 08/522,112                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 8-9, all of the claims pending in the present                        
          application.  Claims 1-7 have been canceled.                                
               The invention is directed to a technique for capturing                 
          and measuring the characteristics of blurred text imagery.                  
          Such measurements are used in conjunction with a priori                     
          information to enable blurred imagery to be interpreted with a              






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