The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte GERD K. BINNIG, PETER BLOECHL and JUERGEN KLENK __________ Appeal No. 2003-0750 Application 09/310,650 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 56-118, which are all of the claims pending in the present application. Claims 1-55 have been canceled. The claimed invention relates to the processing of textual information conveyed in an input string together with information 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007