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            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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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