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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                             publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.  17                    
                                                                                                             
                           UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                          
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                               BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                             
                                           AND INTERFERENCES                                                  
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                               Ex parte EDWIN PETER DAWSON PEDNAULT                                           
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                                            Appeal No. 2002-0308                                              
                                         Application No. 09/106,784                                           
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                                                 ON BRIEF                                                     
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            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.                                




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