UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte FREDERIC BAUCHOT ____________ Appeal 2007-3554 Application 09/887,602 Technology Center 2100 ____________ Decided: October 24, 2007 ____________ 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 includesPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next
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