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               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                   
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                 
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                             
                                                               Paper No. 16           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                               Ex parte IRVING R. TSAI                                
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2001-1317                                  
                             Application No. 08/925,845                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claim 3, the only pending claim.                                            
               The invention is directed to a method for linking a portion            
          of a received document image with an electronic address.  In one            
          illustrated embodiment, a document includes an optically-encoded            
          Java program as a form of virtual machine instruction code.  The            

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