The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte JIE LIANG, ANTONIO ORTEGA, YOUNGJUN YOO and CHRISTOS CHRYSAFIS __________ Appeal No. 2003-0949 Application 09/164,517 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges. MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-7. Invention Appellants’ invention relates to an image compression method with arithmetic coding of coefficient bitplanes and including 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007