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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
____________
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
____________
Ex parte SAE-YOUNG CHUNG and HUI-LING LOU
____________
Appeal No. 2006-0439
Application No. 09/765,754
____________
ON BRIEF
____________
Before THOMAS, BLANKENSHIP, and HOMERE, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s final rejection of
claims 1 through 15, 17 and 19 through 25, appellants having canceled claim 16 and
the examiner having allowed independent claim 18.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. A method for multilevel coding of a stream of information bits in a
communication system, the method comprising the steps of:
Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007