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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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.                                                                      
          UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                   
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          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                          
          AND INTERFERENCES                                                           
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                            Ex parte DALE T. PLATTETER,                               
                        JUDY C. BOSSO AND ROBERT S. WESTFALL                          
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                                Appeal No. 2006-0621                                  
                             Application No. 09/938,237                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH, and BARRETT, 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 1-21, which constitute all the           
          claims pending in this application.                                         
          The disclosed invention pertains to a document processing                   
          system having a marking engine that marks a sheet, a resource               
          that transfers the sheet to the marking engine or receives the              
          sheet from the marking engine, and a control bus for                        
          interconnecting the marking engine and the resource.  A                     







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