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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                    
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                Ex parte PAUL JOSEPH REDER and CAROLE AMELIA MCCALLUM                  
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                                 Appeal No. 2001-2101                                  
                              Application No. 09/111,495                               
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                                       ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and LEVY, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                      
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of            
          claims 1-6 and 8-24, which are all of the claims pending in the              
          present application.  Claim 7 has been canceled.1                            
               The claimed invention relates to a method and system for                
          customizing a graphical user interface (GUI) in which the command            
          structure is dynamically modified in response to direct                      


               1 Our review of the language of the appealed claims reveals that claims 
          12 and 13 improperly remain dependent on canceled claim 7.                   





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