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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte J. RICHARD AYLWARD
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Appeal No. 2003-0315
Application 09/122,988
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HEARD: August 21, 2003
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Before BARRETT, FLEMING, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claim 9. Claims 1 through 8, 10 and 11 are allowed.
Invention
The invention relates to surround sound decoding and more
particularly concerns a novel method for down-mixing a variable
number of channels into a conventional stereophonic left and
right channel pair, which when reproduced as a stereophonic pair,
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