Ex Parte MAEDA et al - Page 1



            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                      ____________                                     
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                      ____________                                     
                 Ex parte HIROSHI MAEDA, YOUICHI KIMURA and RIEKO TODA                 
                                      ____________                                     
                                  Appeal No. 2005-0436                                 
                              Application No. 09/185,2121                              
                                      ____________                                     
                                        ON BRIEF                                       
                                      ____________                                     
          Before KRASS, SAADAT AND MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                  
          rejection of claims 1-17, which are all of the claims pending in             
          this application.                                                            
               We affirm.                                                              
                                       BACKGROUND                                      
               Appellants’ invention relates to an image processing device             
          for managing contents of image processing and image data for each            
          inputted image.  According to Appellants, appropriate image                  
               1  Application for patent filed November 3, 1998, which claims the      
          foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese Application
          No. 9-313028, filed August 13, 1997.                                         




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