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not binding precedent of the Board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. 28
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARK E. EIDSON,
KARL H. MAURITZ and
PAUL S. GRYSKIEWICZ
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Appeal No. 2003-0556
Application 09/185,248
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, JERRY SMITH, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's
final rejection of claims 1-4, 10-12, 16, 19-21 and 23.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method to combine diversely encoded audio data
streams, comprising:
receiving a first audio data stream in a first perceptually
based format;
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