The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MAURICE J.M. CUIJPERS
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Appeal No. 2003-1842
Application No. 09/179,290
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, DIXON, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
A patent examiner rejected claims 2-12. The appellant appeals therefrom under
35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We reverse and enter a new ground of rejection.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal concerns image compression. (Spec. at 1.)
More specifically, a look-up table defines a color value for each pixel in an image.
Regions of the image are separated into groups featuring similar color values. For each
group, the color of one pixel is selected. The image is compressed by retaining only
references to the look-up table that define the color values of the pixels and a pixel map
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