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          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for
                   publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.             


                                                            Paper No. 16              


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                              Ex parte JAMES H. TROISI                                
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                                Appeal No. 1999-0855                                  
                             Application No. 08/730,468                               
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                                     ON BRIEF                                         
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          Before RUGGIERO, LALL, and DIXON, Administrative Patent                     
          Judges.                                                                     
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection              
          of claims 17-23, which are the only remaining claims in the                 
          present application.  Claims 1-16 have been canceled.                       
               The claimed invention relates to the sorting and storing               
          of data using a sort tree in a computer system.  More                       
          particularly, the sort tree is dynamically reconfigured as it               






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