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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DONALD A. DORSEY,
SHARADA RAGHURAM, AND CHARLES P. BINZEL
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Appeal No. 2006-1882
Application No. 10/431,617
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, SAADAT, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20.
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates to a method to allow a mobile unit to search for the
home Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) and higher priority PLMNs in only those
radio access technologies and frequencies of higher priority networks that have not
already been discounted (i.e. determined to be not of the Home PLMN (HPLMN) or
higher priority PLMNs) during previous scans performed in the same geographic area.
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