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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 NEELAKANTAN SUNDARESAN                           
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                                 Appeal No. 2004-0213                                 
                              Application No. 09/502,818                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and GROSS, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 22, which are all of the claims               
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellant's invention relates to a search system which                 
          generates dynamic search abstracts by checking a link repository            
          for new link information about a preliminary result set and                 
          updating abstracts associated with the preliminary result set               
          based on the new link information.  Claim 1 is illustrative of              
          the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:                             




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