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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ANDREW GEORGE MINTER
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Appeal No. 2001-1664
Application No. 08/960,787
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, LALL, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
LALL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the Examiner's final rejection of claims 1-7, which constitutes
all the pending claims in the application.
The disclosed invention is directed to a method and
apparatus for identifying desired items of information from the
vast amounts of information available in the modern world. The
problem addressed by the present invention is that of finding a
practical, scalable method of assisting a given user in finding
items of interest from a large set of available items, for
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