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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JEFFREY D. BIRDSLEY, MICHAEL R. BRUCE,
RAMA R. GORUGANTHU,
BRENNAN V. DAVIS and ROSALINDA M. RING
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Appeal No. 2002-1743
Application No. 09/047,866
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 5-10, 12-17 and
19-23. Claims 2-4, 11 and 18 have been indicated by the examiner as being directed to
allowable subject matter and form no part of this appeal.
The invention is directed to a transcoder-codec circuit that includes a digital
signal processor that updates peak signal values in storage registers that are in the
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