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                   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                   and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14                       


                                  UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                        
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                                       BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                          
                                                    AND INTERFERENCES                                                              
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                                                Ex parte DAVID K. BROBERG                                                          
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                                                     Appeal No. 2000-0545                                                          
                                                     Application 08/638,339                                                        
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                                                           ON BRIEF                                                                
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                   Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO and BLANKENSHIP Administrative Patent Judges.                                          
                   FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                           


                                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                                              
                          This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of                           
                   claims 1-29, all the claims pending in the instant application.                                                 
                          The instant invention discloses a device for selectively providing audiovisual                           
                   signals from one of a plurality of audio/video sources to input receiving circuitry of the                      
                   device.  Appellant’s Specification, page 3, lines 22-25.  The device includes a memory                          
                   for storing channel map information for correlating a plurality of channels to the                              
                   audio/video source corresponding to each channel, a switch for selectively connecting the                       






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