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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                     
                                     ____________                                   
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
                                     ____________                                   
                          Ex parte MARTIN JAMES RONAN HEALEY                        
                                     ____________                                   
                                 Appeal No. 2002-0119                               
                             Application No. 09/015,7131                            
                                     ____________                                   
                                       ON BRIEF                                     
                                     ____________                                   
         Before JERRY SMITH, GROSS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.        
         SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                
         rejection of claims 1-9, which are all of the claims pending in            
         this application.                                                          
              We reverse.                                                           
                                     BACKGROUND                                     
              Appellant’s invention is directed to a method for forming a           
         hyperlinked index of computer-readable pages of information                
         including listings of synonyms and short names for the items               

              1  Application for patent filed January 29, 1998, which claims the    
         foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of British Application
         No. 9717068.2, filed August 13, 1997.                                      





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