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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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 36              

                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                             Ex parte ATSUSHI YOSHIDA and                             
                                   TOYOAKI FURUSAWA                                   
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2003-1605                                 
                              Application No. 08/982,934                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                 HEARD: March 18, 2004                                
                                     ____________                                     
          Before MARTIN, RUGGIERO, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.            
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 1-37, which are all of the claims pending in the present             
          application.                                                                
               The claimed invention relates to an interactive hypertext              
          information reference system including a server which manages the           
          hypertext information and a client processor which references the           
          hypertext information through communication with the server.  More          
          particularly, provision is made for counting a reference frequency          







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