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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              today was not written for publication and is not                      
              binding precedent of the Board.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. 27           

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                                                                   
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                                                                   
                      Ex parte GURUDUTH SOMASEKHARA BANAVAR,                        
         KEVAN LEE MILLER and MICHAEL JAMES WARD                                    
                                                                                   
                               Appeal No. 2004-1082                                 
                             Application No. 09/106,166                             
                                                                                   
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                                                                   
         Before KRASS, BARRETT and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.             
         KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of              
         claims 1-16, all of the pending claims.                                    
              The invention is directed to a technique for improving                
         responsiveness of a user interface in a distributed groupware              
         application environment.  In particular, there is dynamic                  


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