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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DOUGLAS BRIAN MUELLER
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Appeal No. 2002-0056
Application No. 08/868,201
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 13, 16, 19 and 22 through 27.
The disclosed invention relates to a method and apparatus for relating a hyper-text markup
language (HTML) document to stored information that is associated with the HTML document and
with a non-browser application program that is external of the browser.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
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