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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte LEE G. DOVE and GRAHAM I. JOHNSON
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Appeal No. 2001-2696
Application No. 08/950,230
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ON BRIEF
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Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-5 and 7-12, which are all of the claims pending in the
present application. Claim 6 has been canceled.
The disclosed invention relates to the development of a
computer model of consumer behavior in a transaction environment
such as the movement of customers around a bank branch. A number
of agents, which model the behavior of humans, are created, the
agents being genetically encoded with drives which correspond to
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