The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARK J. CHAMBERS,
SCOTT A. KAYLOR, JOSE O. PEREZ
and ALAN I. CHAIKEN
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Appeal No. 2005-1869
Application No. 09/902,051
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HEARD: OCTOBER 18, 2005
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO, and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-10.
The invention is directed to an offset correction circuit
for correcting DC offset in accordance with a data rate.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. An offset correction circuit to correct DC offset in
accordance with a data rate comprising:
a detection circuit to detect a thermal asperity signal; and
a filter circuit to respond to said thermal asperity signal
in accordance with said data rate.
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