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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RAKESH AGRAWAL and RAMAKRISHNAN SRIKANT
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Appeal No. 2004-2099
Application No. 09/487,191
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, BARRY, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-13 and 20-23. Claims 14-19 have been canceled.
Invention
Appellants' invention relates to a method and system for
obtaining data from at least one user via the Internet. Original
data is input by the user. The original data is perturbed to
create perturbed data. The perturbed data is sent from the
user's computer to a server computer. The server computer
performs analysis on the perturbed data without ever seeing the
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