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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MATHIEU C. HANS and GARY D. SASAKI
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Appeal No. 2006-0799
Application No. 09/795,990
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, GROSS, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from a rejection of claims 1-29, which are all of the pending claims.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a system and method for managing access to digital
content licensed by a user. Claims 1 and 15 are illustrative:
1. A system for managing access to digital content, comprising:
a rights manager residing on a server computer and configured to maintain for a
user residing at a network node remote from the server computer a user profile
containing selected user information, including a user license index identifying digital
content licensed by the user.
15. A method of managing access to digital content, comprising:
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