The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 Cristi Nesbitt Ullmann and Lorin Evan Ullmann
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Appeal No. 2006-1287
Application No. 10/047,116
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ON BRIEF
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Before RUGGIERO, BARRY, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
A patent examiner rejected claims 1-28. The appellants appeal therefrom under
35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal concerns the recording of World Wide
Web ("Web") browsing sessions for subsequent use, review, and analysis. (Spec. at 1.)
High-end professionals and physically impaired people may have others conduct their
Web browsing and searching. The value of the searches, however, is limited by the
searcher's understanding of the problem to be searched. A resulting list of Web
documents or Uniform Resource Locations ("URLs") selected by the searcher via
hyperlink threads, furthermore, leaves insufficient information as to which hyperlink
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