Ex Parte WICKS 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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.     
                                                            Paper No. 18              
                       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 E. WICKS and EDUARDO SCIAMMARELLA                   
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-1722                                 
                              Application No. 08/802,578                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before DIXON, GROSS, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 5 through 18, which are all of the claims               
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellants' invention relates to a paging system and method            
          to provide musical event information from a musical event                   
          database to a pager user according to the user's preferences                
          stored in a user profile database.  Claim 5 is illustrative of              













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