Ex parte BERRY et al. - Page 1



                            The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not                           
                           written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board                            
                                                                                            Paper No. 12                 

                                UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                
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                                     BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                  
                                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                                       
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                                              Ex parte RICHARD E. BERRY,                                                 
                                     SUSAN F. HENSHAW and DAVID J. ROBERTS                                               
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                                                 Appeal No. 1998-3063                                                    
                                          Application 08/632,223                                                         
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                                          ON BRIEF                                                                       
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              Before THOMAS, BARRETT and FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judges.                                          
              THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                       
                                                                                                                        
                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                      
                     Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3            
              through 6, 12, 14 through 17, 24 and 26 through 29, which constitute all the claims in the                 
              application.                                                                                               
                     Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:                                                         
                     1.  A method for navigating within a compound graphical object in a graphical user                  
              interface presented on a display, comprising the steps of:                                                 





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