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is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ARTHUR REGINALD GREEF,
THOMAS ROBERT MAGUIRE, and
FRANK CASTELLUCCI
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Appeal No. 2001-2000
Application No. 08/964,096
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, DIXON and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the
examiner’s final rejection of claims 18-24, 26-30 and 32-35.
Representative claim 18 is reproduced below:
18. In an object oriented computer program product recorded
on a recording medium, software for performing a method
comprising the steps of:
storing in permanent storage a persistent class
description including a unique class identifier of a class
of objects and an initial set of one or more fields each
field for a superclass from which the class of objects
inherits attributes;
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