The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 RICHARD A. SIMON ____________ Appeal No. 2001-1008 Application No. 08/971,097 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 13, all the claims pending in the present application. Claims 14 and 15 have been canceled. We note that proposed claims 16 through 18, filed by an amendment after final, were not entered, and thereby are not present in the application. The invention relates to a photobooth that produces special artistic effects in an image using digital image processing. See page 1 of Appellant's specification.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007