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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YOUNG L. HARVILL, JEAN-JACQUES G. GRIMAUD
and JARON Z. LANIER
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Appeal No. 2003-1121
Application 09/189,179
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, LEVY and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 17, 18,
20-28, 30-37 and 39, which are all of the claims pending in the
application.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim an apparatus and method for providing a
tactile stimulus to a body part of a human operator in response
to interaction, in a virtual reality system, of a virtual
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