Appeal No. 95-4187
Application 07/835,374
context, the broadly recited "system" claims 22 through 25 and
their attendant recited "means" are not in my view necessarily
directed to a "machine" within 35 U.S.C. § 100. A "system" is
as much a set of procedures as it is hardware or structure.
The same may be said of the goal strategy network of certain
claims which are said to represent a set having a network
structure, where no true structure or machine is necessarily
required.
JAMES D. THOMAS ) BOARD OF
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Administrative Patent Judge ) APPEALS AND
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