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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 42
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FRANKLIN C. BRESLAU, PAUL G. GREENSTEIN
and JOHN T. RODELL
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Appeal No. 2003-0994
Application No. 08/579,544
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 16-22 and 38-63. Claims 1-15 and 23-37 have been
canceled.
Invention
Appellants' invention relates to object-oriented computer
systems. More specifically, to managing instances of objects by
migrating an object between a merged status having a single
instance and a split status having multiple instances. An object
invoker invokes the object in the same way regardless of its
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