The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte MICHIHIRO NAGAISHI ________________ Appeal No. 1998-3062 Application 08/425,319 ________________ HEARD: MARCH 7, 2001 ________________ Before KRASS, FLEMING and LEE, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 7-12. Claims 1-6 have been canceled. The invention relates to apparatus for using computer technology to recognize characters. More specifically, the present inventions relates to an apparatus for character segmentation in which hand-written characters are provided as input, -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007