Appeal No. 2003-2092 Application 09/046,285 which serves to maintain the amount of number of bits of codes in the transmission buffer 19 at or below a desired quantity. See Zdepski, column 7, lines 1 through 12. However, we fall to find that the Examiner has made a prima facie case to show that Zdepski teaches the Appellants’ claimed method and apparatus for controlling the numbers of bits outputted from the encoder in the precise way as recited in claims 1 and 6. In view of the foregoing, we have not sustained the Examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5 through 8 and 10 through 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Zdepski in view of Tsukagoshi. REVERSED ERROL A. KRASS ) Administrative Patent Judge ) ) ) ) BOARD OF PATENT MICHAEL R. FLEMING ) Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND ) ) INTERFERENCES ) ANITA PELLMAN GROSS ) Administrative Patent Judge ) MRF:pgc 8Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007