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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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: NEELAKANTAN SUNDARESAN
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Appeal No. 2006-1342
Application No. 09/488,471
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, SAADAT and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-32.
The invention pertains to integrating various sources for rating businesses with on-line
search engines so that matches to a user query regarding businesses are reordered in order to rank
the search results with regard to higher business satisfaction ratings.
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