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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte CRAIG R. NOHL and B. IVAN STROM
Appeal No. 2001-1009
Application No. 08/901,304
ON BRIEF
Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-9 and 17-23, all of the pending claims.
The invention pertains to optical character recognition
(OCR). In particular, whereas conventional recognition
techniques for numerical entities treated each digit of a number
as equally important, the instant invention recognizes that in
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