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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ALEXANDER D. MIRZAOFF and THADDEUS F. PAWLICKI
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Appeal No. 1999-2022
Application No. 08/963,987
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ON BRIEF
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Before LALL, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-3, 5-8, 12 and 14-18.
Claims 4, 9-11, 13 and 19-21 have been canceled.
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and system
for assessing the condition of a document as represented by a
document image produced by a high speed document scanner to
determine whether the document image is suitable for further
processing. First, criteria for assessing the document image
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