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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27              
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                      ____________                                     
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                      ____________                                     
                     Ex parte GERALD W. INGRAM and STEVE MANSFIELD                     
                                      ____________                                     
                                  Appeal No. 2004-2266                                 
                              Application No. 09/847,9991                              
                                      ____________                                     
                                 HEARD: MARCH 10, 2005                                 
                                      ____________                                     
          Before KRASS, BARRY 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 31-33, which are all of the claims pending in            
          this application.  Claims 1-30 have been canceled.                           
               We affirm.                                                              
                                      BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention is directed to the use of an enhanced             
          hyperlink that enables users to either save an intended hyperlink            

               1  Application for patent filed May 4, 2001, which claims the filing    
          priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of the provisional Applications No.   
          60/202,029, filed May 4, 2000 and No. 60/283,142, filed April 12, 2001, is a 
          continuation-in-part of Application No. 09/594,784, filed June 16, 2000, now 
          abandoned.                                                                   




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