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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 TAKUYA SAITOU and SHIGERU TAKEZAWA
Appeal No. 2006-2424
Application No. 10/318,196
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON, and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection
of claims 2-10, which constitute all the claims in the application. Since appellants do not
appeal the rejection of claim 10, this appeal is directed to the rejection of claims 2-9. The
examiner has withdrawn the rejection of claims 2-9 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) as being
anticipated by the disclosure of Kobayashi (U.S. Patent No. 5,902,244) [answer, page
10]. The withdrawal of the rejection based on Kobayashi means that there is no rejection
pending against claim 5.
The disclosed invention pertains to a waveform measuring instrument configured to
write measured signal waveforms into a memory after converting the waveforms to
digital data.
Representative claim 2 is reproduced as follows:
2. A waveform measuring instrument configured to write measured signal
waveforms into a memory after converting the waveforms to digital data, wherein an
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