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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THOMAS E. MADDEN, BRIAN E. MITTELSTAEDT, W. HENRIETTA
and EDWARD J. GIORGIANNI
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Appeal No. 1998-2679
Application No. 08/148,765
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ON BRIEF
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Before HECKER, LALL and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
final rejection of claims 1-3 and 5-10. Claim 4 has been1
canceled.
The invention relates to the art of color processing and
particularly to the art of transforming color images to
1An amendment after the final rejection was filed as
Paper No. 9 and its entry approved by the Examiner, Paper No.
10. As a result, the rejections based under U.S.C. § 112,
first paragraph, has been withdrawn by the Examiner leaving
behind only the rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 102.
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