The opinion in support of the decision being entered today
was not written for publication in and
is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 42
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte VICTOR H. SHEAR, W. OLIN SIBERT
DAVID M. VANWIE and ROBERT P. WEBER
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Appeal No. 2005-0476
Application No. 08/848,077
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, GROSS, and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of
claims 151 through 177 which constitute all the claims remaining in the
application. For the reasons stated infra we will not sustain the examiner’s
rejection of these claims.
THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a technique for managing rights to information
stored on portable media such as Digital Video Disks (DVD). See page 3 of
appellants’ specification. The technique encrypts digital properties of the
information in a tamper-resistant software “container” together with rules about
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