The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte HO CHONG LEE and MIKEL J. STANICH __________ Appeal No. 2003-1063 Application No. 09/100,487 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1, 2, 10, 11, 28, 29, 30, 35 and 41. Claims 3-9, 12-18, 31-34, 36-40 and 42-46 stand objected to as dependent from a rejected base claim but allowable if rewritten in independent form. Claims 19- 27 have been canceled. THE INVENTION The appellants claim a method, apparatus and memory for applying a transform to the grayscale commands of a first printer so as to simulate the grayscale printing characteristics of a 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007