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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                               Ex parte GEORGE KRAFT IV                               
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                                 Appeal No. 2004-1136                                 
                              Application No. 09/363,948                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before THOMAS, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1, 2, and 4 through 21, which are all of the            
          claims pending in this application.                                         
               Appellant's invention relates to a method of monitoring                
          configuration files of a computer.  Claim 1 is illustrative of              
          the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:                             
          1.   A method of monitoring the configuration of a computer                 
          system, comprising:                                                         
               as a preliminary step in an error recovery procedure,                  
               determining whether each of a set of configuration                     
               files, each file containing configuration parameters                   
               values for a corresponding executable program of the                   




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