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             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             publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DINESH KASHINATH ANVEKAR, BHASKARPILLAI GOPINATH,                                         
             RAJIV MANGLA and SRIDHAR SUNDARAM                                                                  
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                                            Appeal No. 2006-1978                                                
             Application No. 10/027,572                                                                         
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                                                  ON BRIEF                                                      
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             Before HAIRSTON, RUGGIERO, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent                                  
             Judges.                                                                                            
             RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                             


                                          DECISION ON APPEAL                                                    
                   This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-19,                    
             which are all of the claims pending in this application.                                           
                   The disclosed invention relates to a short message service (SMS) message                     
             system in which a separate SMS exchange system implements value-added service                      
             capability.  More particularly, the value-added services range from a simple data                  




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