The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007