The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte BRIAN PARSONNET, LANE D. DESBOROUGH and TARIQ SAMAD
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Appeal No. 2004-1980
Application No. 10/153,2001
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO and SAADAT, Administrative Patent
Judges.
SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
Examiner’s final rejection of claims 31-55. Claims 1-30 have
been canceled.
We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention is directed generally to brokering
service requests between a plurality of customers and a plurality
1 According to Appellants, this application is a divisional of
Application No. 09/474,948, filed December 30, 1999.
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