Ex Parte HALL et al - Page 8



          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                
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                                                       ) INTERFERENCES                
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                         ANITA PELLMAN GROSS           )                              
                         Administrative Patent Judge   )                              
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