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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHUNRONG ZHU
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Appeal No. 2002-0723
Application 08/965,637
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and MacDONALD, Administrative
Patent Judges.
MacDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-38.
Invention
The disclosed invention relates to a multi-layer coder
(figure 1) and multi-layer decoder (figure 4) and the methods
thereof. The base layer of the coder produces quantized output
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