Ex Parte Briand et al - Page 1




            The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written          
                   for publication and isnot binding precedent of the Board.           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                     
                                     ____________                                   

                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
                                     ____________                                   
                Ex parte GERARD BRIAND, JUAN MORONTA and ALAIN VERDIER              
                                     ____________                                   
                                 Appeal No. 2006-1240                               
                              Application No. 10/075,839                            
                                     ____________                                   
                                       ON BRIEF                                     
                                     ____________                                   
         Before JERRY SMITH, BLANKENSHIP, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent         
         Judges.                                                                    
         SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from            
         the Examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-14.1                            
              We reverse.                                                           
                                      BACKGROUND                                    
              Appellants’ invention is directed to a method and apparatus           
         for detecting the reliability of a field of movement vectors of            
                                                                                   
              1  Claims 15 and 16, which have been added during the prosecution,    
         appear to have been inadvertently omitted from the rejected claims.        




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