Appeal No. 2004-0991
Application No. 09/152,063
claim 25 is sustained. The anticipation rejection of claims 26,
27, 29 through 37 and 42 through 46 is likewise sustained based
upon appellants’ grouping of the claims (supplemental brief, page
2).
The anticipation rejection of claims 39, 40 and 48 is reversed
because the examiner’s contentions (answer, pages 6 and 11) to the
contrary notwithstanding, we can not find any teaching in Stein of
“calculating the sum of the absolute values of each said sequence
of groups” of soft bits (emphasis added).
DECISION
The decision of the examiner rejecting claims 25 through 27,
29 through 37, 39, 40, 42 through 46 and 48 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(a) is affirmed as to claims 25 through 27, 29 through 37 and
42 through 46, and is reversed as to claims 39, 40 and 48.
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