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                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                            
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                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                              
                                         AND INTERFERENCES                                                   
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                                     Ex parte FREDERIC BAUCHOT                                               
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                                             Appeal 2007-3554                                                
                                          Application 09/887,602                                             
                                          Technology Center 2100                                             
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                                        Decided: October 24, 2007                                            
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                Before KENNETH W. HAIRSTON, JAY P. LUCAS, and JOHN A.                                        
                JEFFERY, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                       
                HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                       

                                         DECISION ON APPEAL                                                  
                      Appellant appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from a final rejection of                      
                claims 1 to 12.  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).                                
                      We will sustain the rejection.                                                         
                                      STATEMENT OF THE CASE                                                  
                      Appellant has invented a method of persistently self-replicating                       
                multiple ranges of cells via a copy and paste operation in a multi-                          
                dimensional spreadsheet.  The automatic self-replication operation includes                  




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