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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THOMAS A. KIST, BURN L. LEWIS, and BRUCE D. LUCAS
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Appeal No. 2004-1117
Application No. 09/348,425
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, GROSS, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 22 through 31, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a speech recognition system
which identifies a voice command component specified by a command
grammar and a dictation component not specified by the command
grammar and executes the voice command component using the
dictation component as an execution parameter of the voice
command. Claim 22 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and
it reads as follows:
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