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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KERRY R. MATTHEW and PAUL W. CHAU
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Appeal No. 1998-1481
Application No. 08/536,163
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and HECKER, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-10, all of the
pending claims.
The invention pertains to integrated circuit (IC) cards and, more particularly, to an IC
card reader with a synthesized speech audio output. The invention is said to be
useful, for example, to the vision-impaired in determining the balance on a debit card.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
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