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                                   The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                            
                                   was not written for publication in a law journal and                                  
                                          is not binding precedent of the Board.                                         
                                                                                 Paper No.   17                          
                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                  
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                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
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                            Ex parte  MIZUHO TADOKORO and KAZUYA TSUKIZAWA                                               
                                                   _____________                                                         
                                                Appeal No. 2004-0545                                                     
                                              Application No. 09/510,569                                                 
                                                   ______________                                                        
                                                       ON BRIEF                                                          
                                                  _______________                                                        
                 Before BARRETT, FLEMING and NAPPI,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                       
                 NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                     
                                                                                                                        
                                               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                        

                        This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of                     
                 claims 1 through 8 and 17 through 20, which constitute all the claims remaining                         
                 in the application.                                                                                     
                                                       Invention                                                         
                        The invention relates to a method to set up the hardware settings in a data                      
                 processing system.  A data processing system requiring the hardware settings is                         
                 connected to a server by a network.  The server performs a hardware setup                               








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