Ex parte LIU et al. - Page 11




          Appeal No. 1999-0003                                      Page 11           
          Application No. 08/642,742                                                  


          lies hierarchically above a low level format and                            
          hierarchically below both the first high level encoding format              
          and a second high level format, wherein the second high level               
          is different from the first high level encoding format ....”                
          Therefore, we reverse the rejection of claims 1, 3, 5, 8, 10,               
          12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, 26, and 29 as being obvious over                    
          Loizides in view of Naimpally and the rejection of claims 6,                
          7, 13, 14, 20, 21, 27, and 28 as being obvious over Loizides                
          in view of Naimpally further in view of Ackland.                            


                                     CONCLUSION                                       
               In summary, the rejection of claims  1, 3, 5-8, 10, 12-                
          15, 17, 19-22, 24, and 26-29 under § 103(a) is reversed.                    





















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