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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte IRVING R. TSAI
Appeal No. 2001-1317
Application No. 08/925,845
ON BRIEF
Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claim 3, the only pending claim.
The invention is directed to a method for linking a portion
of a received document image with an electronic address. In one
illustrated embodiment, a document includes an optically-encoded
Java program as a form of virtual machine instruction code. The
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