The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte B EDWARD MCDONALD, GREGORY J ORRIS and WILLIAM A KUPERMAN ____________ Appeal No. 2001-0117 Application No. 08/757,173 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before FLEMING, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 2, 7, 18, 20, 22 and 24. The invention relates to a matched-phase noise filter. See page 1 of Appellants' specification. Claim 2 is reproduced as follows: 2. The matched-phase noise filter as recited in claim 1, - wherein a phase of F (fi) is identical to Ñ (fi).Page: 1 2 3 4 5 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007