Ex Parte Francois et al

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Feb 12, 2019

14412998 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 12, 2019)

UNITED STA TES p A TENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE
14/412,998 01/05/2015
147897 7590
Tutunjian & Bitetto, P.C.
401 Broadhollow Road
Suite 402
Melville, NY 11747
02/14/2019
FIRST NAMED INVENTOR
Edouard Francois
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Address: COMMISSIONER FOR PATENTS
P.O. Box 1450
Alexandria, Virginia 22313-1450
www .uspto.gov
ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.
PFl 10108 2566
EXAMINER
ABDOU TCHOUSSOU, BOUBACAR
ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER
2489
NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE
02/14/2019 ELECTRONIC
Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.
The time period for reply, if any, is set in the attached communication.
Notice of the Office communication was sent electronically on above-indicated "Notification Date" to the
following e-mail address(es):
docketing@tb-iplaw.com
PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
Ex parte EDOUARD FRANCOIS, DOMINIQUE THOREAU,
JEROME VIERON, and PHILIPPE BORDES
Appeal2018-006607
Application 14/412,998
Technology Center 2400
Before JOHN A. JEFFERY, DENISE M. POTHIER, and
JUSTIN BUSCH, Administrative Patent Judges.
JEFFERY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134(a), Appellants 1 appeal from the
Examiner's decision to reject claims 18, 20-32, and 34--43, which constitute
all the claims pending in this application. Claims 1-17, 19, and 33 have
been cancelled. We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
We reverse.
1 Appellants identify the real party in interest as Thomson Licensing SAS.
App. Br. 2.
Appeal2018-006607
Application 14/412,998
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellants' invention limits the number of usable coding modes at a
coder and decoder to a subset of q coding modes of a set of n possible
coding modes, where q