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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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. 31
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte CARROLL W. CRESWELL and ROY PHILIP WEBER
Appeal No. 2003-1022
Application No. 09/152,810
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and GROSS, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-7, 9, 17-19 and 21-26.
The invention is directed to a method of securing purchases
over a computer network. In order not to divulge sensitive
credit card information or personal information about the
purchaser, the method includes a two-prong approach whereby an
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