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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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                           
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                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                              
                                AND INTERFERENCES                                     
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                 Ex parte ROBERT A. WIEDEMAN and PRASHANT V. WAKNIS                   
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                                Appeal No. 2006-0663                                  
                             Application No. 09/841,862                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO, and MACDONALD, Administrative                 
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of           
          claims 1-7 and 14-20, which are all of the clams pending in this            
          application.                                                                
               The claimed invention relates to a mobile satellite                    
          telecommunications system and method in which at least one  user            
          terminal, at least one earth orbiting satellite, and at least one           
          gateway, are provided.  In response to requests from particular             
          applications, individual ones of a plurality of Quality of                  
          Service (QoS) modes for servicing different application                     
          requirements are selected with the user terminal and communicated           





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