Ex Parte Neti et al - Page 1


                          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                                 for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 CHALAPATHY VENKATA NEIL, NITENDRA RAJPUT, VENKATA L.                                  
                                     SUBRAMANIAM and ASHISH VERMA                                                
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                                             Appeal No. 2006-2156                                                
                                           Application No. 09/790,296                                            
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                                                   ON BRIEF                                                      
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                Before RUGGIERO, BARRY, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.                                
                RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                           


                                            DECISION ON APPEAL                                                   
                       This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20,                 
                which are all of the claims pending in this application.                                         
                       The disclosed invention relates to speech recognition systems in which a                  
                speech recognition system for one (new) spoken language is generated based                       
                on a speech recognition system originally generated for another (base) spoken                    
                language.                                                                                        
                       Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as follows:                            
                             1.  A method of aligning speech data of a first language to a phone                 
                       set associated with the first language using a speech recognition system                  
                       trained in accordance with a second language, the method comprising the                   
                       steps of:                                                                                 




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