The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte DAVID R. FERGUSON, DANI SULEMAN and GREGORY L. WHITTEMORE _______________ Appeal No. 2003-0360 Application No. 08/947,032 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ 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, -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007