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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              written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                    _____________                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                    _____________                                     
                 Ex parte JEFFREY R. BLUM, ELIZABETH A. BASTIAANSE,                   
                                 and IDO BEN-SHACHAR                                  
                                    _____________                                     
                                Appeal No. 2004-1443                                  
                             Application No. 09/559,695                               
                                   ______________                                     
                                     ON BRIEF                                         
                                   _______________                                    
          Before THOMAS, KRASS, and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.                                   
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
          This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                      
          from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1, 2 and 4-17, which                
          constitute all the claims in the application.                               
          The disclosed invention pertains to a user interface in a                   
          hand-held computing device.  More particularly, data within the             
          database of the device can be accessed from an all categories               
          label that represents a full list of all entries in the database            





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