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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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21             

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                   _____________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                   _____________                                    
                        Ex parte QING GONG and HUIFANG WANG                         
                                   _____________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2004-0499                                
                             Application No. 09/251,789                             
                                  ______________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                  _______________                                   
         Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent                
         Judges.                                                                    
         RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of          
         claims 1-29, which are all of the claims pending in the present            
         application.                                                               
              The disclosed invention relates to the distribution and               
         updating of software to a large number of clients using                    
         decentralized peer-to-peer client distribution.  A first version           
         of a first software application and a second version of a second           




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