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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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 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.                 
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