The opinion in support of the decision being
entered today was not written for publication
in a law journal and is not binding precedent
of the Board.
Paper No. 42
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte CORNELIS A. VAN HOLTEN,
KAIJA M. SALONEN and SEPPO E. SALOW
Appeal No. 2000-0471
Application No. 08/871,442
HEARD: January 23, 2002
Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and FLEMING, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 37-52, all of the pending claims.
The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for
performing 3/5 majority voting. The invention obviates the
need to store five repetitions of a digital word in order to
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