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                                   THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                          
                          The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for             
                              publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                
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                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                  
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                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
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                                              Ex parte MARK A. WEISS                                                     
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                                                Appeal No. 2003-1146                                                     
                                                Application 09/595,249                                                   
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                                             HEARD: 20 November 2003                                                     
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              Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.                                 
              JERRY SMITH, 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 1-44, which constitute all the claims in the application.                              
                     The disclosed invention pertains to a method and apparatus for automatically                        
              creating a print job which conforms to the print job specifications of a client.                           
                     Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:                                                    


                     1.  An automated computer-implemented method of comparing a job quote for a                         

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