The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte KEMAL GULER, TONGWEI LIU, and HSIU-KHUERN TANG ____________ Appeal 2006-3156 Application 09/904,311 Technology Center 1700 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before ANITA PELLMAN GROSS, STUART S. LEVY, and ROBERT E. NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges. GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge. STATEMENT OF THE CASE Guler, Liu, and Tang (Appellants) appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the Examiner's final rejection of claims 22 through 47, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Appellants' invention relates to a method and system for determining risk attitudes and private information of bidders in an auction. Claim 22 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
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