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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte XIAOSHU QIAN and YINONG DING
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Appeal No. 2001-1312
Application No. 08/989,701
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 2-8, which are all of the claims pending in the present
application. Claim 1 has been canceled. An amendment filed
January 19, 2000 after final rejection was denied entry by the
Examiner.
The claimed invention relates to a method for synthesizing
music and speech sound signals using sinusoidal modeling. More
particularly, a quadratic phase model approach is provided in
which polynomial coefficients are determined by least-square
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