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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                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                         
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                            
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                        Ex parte PO-CHIH WANG, CHUNG-YI YAO,                            
                           THOMAS SHENG and YEN-CHENG CHEN                              
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-2067                                   
                              Application No. 08/859,278                                
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                                       ON BRIEF                                         
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          Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                  Decision on Appeal                                    
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of                 
          claims 1 through 23, all the claims pending in the application.               
               The invention relates to an image processing system.  The                
          system includes a central processing unit, CPU, (604) to control              
          the scanning of the scanner (602) and the transmission of the                 
          scanned information.  See Appellants’ specification page 8, lines             
          4-10.  The system further includes a second processor, an image               
          processor (603/701).  See Appellants’ specification page 8, lines             
          13-17, page 9, lines 10-14 and Figures 6 and 7.  The image                    
          processor (603/701) is for processing the scanned information in              




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