The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte EDWIN PETER DAWSON PEDNAULT _____________ Appeal No. 2002-0308 Application No. 09/106,784 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, DIXON and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20. The invention is directed to a method for constructing predictive models that can be used to make predictions in situations where the inputs to those models can have values that are missing or otherwise unknown. A copy of Independent claim 1 is appended to this decision. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007