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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 STEVEN J. HARRINGTON and LISA S. PURVIS
Appeal No. 2006-2952
Application No. 10/209,242
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, JERRY SMITH and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection
of claim 1, which constitutes the only claim pending in this application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method for evaluating, by generating a fitness
measure value, a set of variable data documents generated by an automatic document
assembly process. A set of variable data documents is a set of documents having a
portion corresponding to a predetermined content and a portion corresponding to a
variable content, wherein the predetermined content is the same in each document of the
set of variable data documents.
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