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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DOUGLAS N. CURRY
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Appeal No. 2005-0444
Application No. 10/025,6711
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, LEVY and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final
rejection of claims 1-6, 8, 9 and 13-18. The Examiner has
previously indicated the allowability of claims 7 and 10-12.
We reverse.
BACKGROUND
Appellant’s invention is generally directed to compression
and decompression of image data and, in particular, to methods
that compress and decompress image areas containing edges of
1 Application for patent filed December 26, 2001, which according to
Appellant, is a continuation of Application No. 09/219,850, filed December 23,
1998, now U.S. Patent No. 6,771,827.
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