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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 HAKAN MITTS, HARRI HANSEN and JUKKA IMMONEN,
Appeal No. 2002-1306
Application No. 08/993,321
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, KRASS and FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 3-8 and 10-13.
The invention is directed to a network-structured telecommunications network.
More specifically, an efficient network topology is described for the routing of
connections in the network comprising both fixed cable communications networks and
wireless mobile terminals. In order to overcome prior problems concerning fixed tree
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