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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TIMOTHY P O'HAGAN
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Appeal No. 2003-2018
Application No. 09/057,261
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, FLEMING, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1, 2, 4, 5, 8-18, 20 and 22, all the claims pending in the
instant application. Claims 3, 6, 7, 19 and 21 have been
canceled.
Invention
The invention relates to a speech recognition system. See
page 1 of Appellant's specification. Many conventional speech
decoding systems utilize a phonetic encoder to convert the
digital signals representing the utterance into a sequence of
phoneme codes. Each phoneme is the smallest unit of speech that
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