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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID A. GOLDMAN
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Appeal No. 2002-1657
Application No. 09/134,981
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ON BRIEF
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Before BARRETT, RUGGIERO, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the Examiner’s rejection
of claims 1-9 and 10-20, which are all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claim 10 has been canceled.
The claimed invention relates to a system and method for
automatically generating embroidery designs from scanned color
images. An image data file produced from the scanned images is
provided to an embroidery generating program which executes a
series of sub-routines to produce an embroidery data output file
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