The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DARELL DEAN CRONCH, THOMAS JON EADE,
MARK JOSEPH EDWARDS, and MARK WALTER FAGAN
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Appeal No. 2002-1710
Application No. 09/023,441
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
A patent examiner rejected claims 1-12. The appellants appeal therefrom under
35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal downloads to a printer an "operating system"
with which to interpret data sent from a host; the printer uses the operating system to
render an image corresponding to the data sent from the host. Data used to represent
an image to be printed can take any of several standard or proprietary formats. A
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