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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PATRICIA SCHURKO, PAUL MASARIK, AND DONNA HUDDLE
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Appeal No. 2001-1017
Application No. 08/988,151
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, 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 39, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a method of operating a
banking system over a network including determining whether a
customer's request received at a host computer is capable of
being fulfilled by a customer service representative or by an
automated system and routing the request accordingly. Claim 1 is
illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
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