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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MASAYOSHI KOBAYASHI
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Appeal No. 2006-1497
Application No. 09/770,017
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, BLANKENSHIP, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 7, 10, 14, 22, 24 through 27 and 29.
Claims 8, 11, 15 and 23 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would
be allowable if rewritten in independent claim form including all of the limitations of the base
claim and any intervening claims.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining whether
predetermined conditions have been met for replacing a sub-tree structure of a tree structure with
an equivalent table.
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