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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JEFFREY G. WILEY
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Appeal No. 2006-3037
Application No. 10/033,225
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRY, 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 claims 1, 4-12, and 14-27, which constitute all the claims pending in this
application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a multifunction device that may be used to
convert paper documents and then transmit the electronic image to a variety of network
destinations. Specifically, the multifunction device enables a user to specify a remote
storage device having a particular electronic document. To this end, the user identifies
the user-specified remote storage device based in part on a path thereto specified by
the user. After establishing a link between the multifunction device and the user-
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