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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25         

                   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                          
                                    ____________                                      
                       BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                             
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                     ____________                                     
             Ex parte DANA M. DUFFIELD, RONDA M. HALEY, TIMOTHY L. KRAMER,            
               DANIEL D. SCHULZ, ALLEN M. SCHMIDT, and JAMES S. WILLIAMS              
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2001-0962                                 
                              Application No. 07/687,276                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before KRASS, SCHAFER, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.          
          CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                  Decision on Appeal                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 to 3, 6 to 11 and 13, which are all of the            
          claims pending in this application.  Claims 5 and 12 have been              
          canceled.                                                                   
               The appellants’ invention relates to a method and apparatus            
          for remote administration of programmable workstations coupled              
          to a host computer in a data processing system (specification,              






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