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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                  today was not written for publication and is not                  
                          binding precedent of the Board.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. 12           


                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                                                                   
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                                                                   
                              Ex parte GABRIEL N. ISSA                              
                                                                                   
                                Appeal No. 2004-1283                                
                             Application No. 09/373,141                             
                                                                                   
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                                                                   
         Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and BARRETT, Administrative Patent               
         Judges.                                                                    
         KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of              
         claims 1-63.                                                               
              The invention pertains to conducting on-line auctions for a           
         specified category of items, the nature of which is apparent from          
         a review of representative independent claim 1, reproduced as              
         follows:                                                                   
              1.  A method for conducting an online auction of a monetary           
         amount for a specified category of items, the method comprising:           

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