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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GERALD T. MICHAEL, WEI SU, and MICHAEL A. DUKES
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Appeal No. 1999-1608
Application No. 08/506,943
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, LALL, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 17-23, all of the
pending claims.
The invention is directed to the conversion of scanned images of schematic
diagrams of electrical circuits into computer aided design programs/tools and/or VHSIC
Hardware Description Language (VHDL).
Independent claim 17 is reproduced as follows:
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