Ex Parte MEYERSON et al - Page 1




          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 20              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                      Ex parte ROBERT F. MEYERSON and CHEN FENG                       
                                      __________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2001-1342                                  
                               Application 08/994,821                                 
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent             
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1, 3 through 15 and 17 through 28.  Claims 2 and 16 have             
          been canceled.                                                              
                                     Invention                                       
               The invention relates to a portable data collection device             
          including an imaging dataform reader utilizing multiple target              
          area illumination sources for independent reading of superimposed           

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