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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                       Ex parte GEORGE T. STEPP and PAUL R. KAYL                      
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                                 Appeal No. 2000-1363                                 
                              Application No. 08/848,374                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before HAIRSTON, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 19 and 21, which are all of the               
          claims pending in this application.                                         
               Appellants' invention relates to a computer system and a               
          method of storing sets of configuration settings for the computer           
          in a chronological history file for retrieval by the user.  Claim           
          5 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as                 
          follows:                                                                    







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