The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte PEILIN CHOU Appeal No. 2002-1109 Application 09/316,4361 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, BARRETT, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judges. BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from the final rejection of claims 1-26. We affirm-in-part. 1 Application for patent filed May 21, 1999, entitled "Accessing A Database Using User-Defined Attributes," which claims the foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Taiwan (ROC) Application 87,108,378, filed May 29, 1998. - 1 -Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007