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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte HASHEM FARROKH, KALAVAI J. RAGHUNATH and
SUBRAMANIAN NAGANATHAN
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Appeal No. 2001-2125
Application No. 08/906,537
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-3 and 5-18, which are all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claim 4 has been canceled.
The disclosed invention relates to the cooperative combination
of a computer-implemented multiplier and accumulator. One of the
input terms to the multiplier is encoded with a partial product
reducing methodology such as Booth encoding. More particularly, a
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