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was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not
binding precedent of the Board.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. 27
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THOMAS F. BOWEN and WILLIAM H. MANSFIELD
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Appeal No. 95-3872
Application No. 08/171,2661
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 8, 9 and 11 through 18, all of the claims pending in the
application.
The invention is directed to a method for updating database
values without the use of locking operations. While locking
operations employed by the prior art maintained consistency of
1Application for patent filed December 21, 1993.
According to appellants, this application is a continuation of
Application 07/630,557, filed December 20, 1990, now abandoned.
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