Ex Parte LOUDON et al - Page 1



               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                         
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                            
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                       Ex parte GARETH H. LOUDON and YI-MIN WU                          
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-2065                                   
                              Application No. 08/652,160                                
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                                       ON BRIEF                                         
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          Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                       
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                    

               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of                 
          claims 17, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61 and 62.  Claims 1-16, 18-54, 57,                
          63-68 have been canceled.                                                     
               The invention includes an on-line handwriting recognition                
          system for ideographic characters based on subcharacter hidden                
          Markov models that can recognize cursive and print style                      







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