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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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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. 34                   


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                    Ex parte DAVID R. FERGUSON, DANI SULEMAN and                      
                                   GREGORY L. WHITTEMORE                              
                                   _______________                                    
                    Appeal No. 2003-0360                                              
                             Application No. 08/947,032                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and DIXON Administrative Patent Judges.              
          KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                    DECISION ON APPEAL                                                
               This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 1-5, 8-13, 18-22, 25-32 and 37-40.                                   
               The invention is directed to a computer-based document                 
          management system wherein electronic documents are automatically            
          archived.  The automatic archiving function is triggered by user-           
          defined archiving conditions, such as a maximum time period,                

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