The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte STUART RAYMOND PATRICK and AMIT CHATTERJEE __________ Appeal No. 2000-2211 Application 09/031,316 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before HAIRSTON, GROSS, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 21 through 25. The disclosed invention relates to a method for invoking a function to create a device-independent bitmap (DIB). Claims 21 and 24 are illustrative of the claimed invention, and they read as follows: 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007