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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte WILLIAM T. MORGAN, MARVIN L. MILHOLLAND,
BRENDA D. COOMES, GERALD R. GREEN and CHIN-MIN WANG
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Appeal No. 2003-2027
Application No. 08/804,908
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-12, all the claims pending in the instant application.
Invention
The present invention relates to a network test system. In
particular, the invention relates to test systems for analyzing
the performance for wide area networks such as cable television
networks used to provide bi-directional communications. See page
1 of Appellants' specification. Figure 1 is a block diagram of a
cable system in which a test system according to Appellants'
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