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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte NICHOLAS J. N. MURPHY
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Appeal No. 1999-1845
Application No. 08/659,132
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HEARD: June 14, 2001
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-21, which constitute
all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a graphics
processing system in which the same address locations of a
buffer memory are used to store both color values and depth
values.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
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