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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                     Ex parte LEE G. DOVE and GRAHAM I. JOHNSON                       
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                                Appeal No. 2001-2696                                  
                             Application No. 08/950,230                               
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                                     ON BRIEF                                         
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          Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 1-5 and 7-12, which are all of the claims pending in the             
          present application.  Claim 6 has been canceled.                            
               The disclosed invention relates to the development of a                
          computer model of consumer behavior in a transaction environment            
          such as the movement of customers around a bank branch.  A number           
          of agents, which model the behavior of humans, are created, the             
          agents being genetically encoded with drives which correspond to            






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