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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                 Ex parte GREGORY P. MURPHY and ALLEN F. MUELLENBACH                  
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                                Appeal No. 2002-0484                                  
                             Application No. 09/274,617                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before COHEN, PATE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                 
          PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1                 
          through 27.  The appeal with respect to claims 28 through 33 was            
          withdrawn by appellants in the brief.                                       
               The claimed invention is directed to a system for                      
          determining fuel used by an internal combustion engine within a             
          geographical jurisdiction.  In particular, the present invention            
          may take the form of a computer controlled internal combustion              
          engine having a fuel system wherein the computer control is                 
          operable to compute fueling command values and provide                      




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