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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte JORG METTERNICH, GERALD ARNOLD,
MICHAEL EHRMANTRAUT and STEFAU AKERBLOM
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Appeal No. 2003-0494
Application No. 09/176,012
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
rejection of claims 1 through 29.
The Invention
The invention relates to a system to allow a person to access information by
using the short message service of a phone. A person uses a data processing system
to generate a query profile, which contains both a request for the information and the
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