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               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                  Ex parte JAMES RUSSELL BERGEN, CURT R. CARLSON,                     
                        RAKESH KUMAR and SAWHNEY S. HARPREET                          
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                                Appeal No. 2003-1967                                  
                             Application No. 08/970,889                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before THOMAS, FLEMING, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   

               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-11, 13, 14 and 17-26, all the claims pending in the                
          instant application.  Claims 12, 15 and 16 have been canceled.              
                                      Invention                                       
               The invention relates to a method and apparatus for                    
          efficiently storing and accessing video information.  See page 1            
          of Appellants' specification.  Figure 7 is a graphical                      
          representation of the relative memory requirements of two scene             





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