THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not
written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding
precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ANDREW J. SCHOFIELD and ANTHONY R. WASHER
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Appeal No. 1997-1933
Application No. 08/299,715
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ON BRIEF
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Before KRASS, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 12 and 13, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants' invention relates to a fault-tolerant
transaction-oriented data processing system and method in
which, for a resource which is to be updated within a
transaction, an exclusive semaphore lock is obtained and
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