The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 UWE HANSMANN, LOTHAR MERK and THOMAS STOBER ____________ Appeal No. 2006-0986 Application No. 09/745,818 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before OWENS, GROSS and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from a rejection of claims 1-24, which are all of the pending claims. THE INVENTION The appellants claim a system, contactless label chipcard, device, method and computer program product for executing payments. Claim 1, which claims the system, is illustrative: 1. System comprising: a contactless label chipcard attached to a product containing at least information identifying said product and payment status thereof, and a component for execution of an update of the payment status of said product;Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007