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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                      for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                 




                                UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                        
                                                                                                                                
                                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                         
                                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                                              
                                                                                                                                
                  Ex parte EARNEY STOUTENBURG, CASSANDRA J. MOLLETT, JAMES PRICE,                                                
                    CHARLES A. FILLINGER, ERIC M. NELSON, DEAN A. SEIFERT         and                                            
                                                  JEFFREY SINGLETON                                                              
                                                                                                                                
                                                   Appeal No. 2006-0395                                                          
                                                 Application No. 10/116,735                                                      
                                                                                                                                
                                                          ON BRIEF                                                               
                                                                                                                                

               Before, KRASS, LEVY and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                
               KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                               

                                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                                             
                      This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-9 and 11-26.                             
                      The invention is directed to a system and method for configuring a point-of-sale                           
               system.  One such configuration is set forth in representative independent claim 1,                               
               reproduced as follows:                                                                                            
                      1. A method for implementing a scalable value transfer system, the method                                  
               comprising:                                                                                                       
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