Ex Parte WU et al - Page 1




           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                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17              

                  UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                           
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                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                              
                                AND INTERFERENCES                                     
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                 Ex parte ZHANBING WU, GANESH PANDEY, AMANDA NGUYEN                   
                     PETER WONG, ALVIN SCHOLTEN and EIGO SHIMIZU                      
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                                Appeal No. 2003-0237                                  
                              Application No.09/157,895                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before BARRETT, OWENS, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1-4 and 6-           
          22.  Claim 5, which is the only other pending claim, has been               
          allowed.                                                                    
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The appellants claim a computer system and computer-readable           
          medium having a text based minidriver, a method for                         
          characterizing a printer device using a text based minidriver,              
          and a method for modifying a text based minidriver characterizing           


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