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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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                              
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                                                             Paper No. 32              

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
                                                                                      

                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                                                                      

                             Ex parte WILLIAM J. JOHNSON                               
                               and MICHAEL DEAN SMITH                                  
                                                                                      
                                 Appeal No. 2003-2010                                  
                               Application 09/150,5491                                 
                                                                                      
                                       ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                      
          Before MARTIN, BARRETT, and FLEMING, Administrative Patent                   
          Judges.                                                                      
          BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from              
          the final rejection of claims 1, 3-7, and 9-12.  Claims 2 and 8              
          have been canceled.                                                          
               We affirm.                                                              

          1  Application for patent filed September 9, 1998, entitled                  
          "Method and System for Cursor Applied Processing Within a Data               
          Processing," which is a division of Application 08/160,348, filed            
          December 1, 1993, now U.S. Patent 5,874,963, issued                          
          February 23, 1999.                                                           
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