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              The opinion in support of the decision being entered                  
              today was not written for publication in a law journal                
              and is not binding precedent of the Board.                            
                                                             Paper No. 22           


                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                                                                   
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                                                                   
                            Ex parte MICHAEL MAN-HAK TSO                            
                                                                                   
                                Appeal No. 2002-0144                                
                             Application No. 09/000,759                             
                                                                                   
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                                                                   

         Before KRASS, BARRY and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent                 
         Judges.                                                                    
         KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of              
         claims 1-4, 6, 11-13 and 21-26.                                            
              The invention is directed to the filtering of network                 
         content to be downloaded to a network client in a computer                 
         system.  While conventional blocking techniques were based on URL          
         classifications, the instant invention bases the blocking of               

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