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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 GEOFFREY B. RHOADS
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Appeal No. 2001-0922
Application No. 09/408,886
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
Appellant has requested a rehearing of our April 30, 2003
decision to affirm the 35 U.S.C. § 102(e) rejection of claims 1,
6, 7, 12, 15, 17 and 19.
Appellant argues (request, pages 1 and 2) that “the decision
(1) misapprehended the structure of the image of Figure 2 of
Powell, (2) overlooked that claim 1 requires plural blocks of
embedded data to be uniformly arrayed, (3) overlooked that claim
7 requires encoding auxiliary data in a tiled fashion, both
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