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                    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          (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18           

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                   _______________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                             Ex parte PREMKUMAR DEVANBU                               
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                                 Appeal No. 96-4026                                   
                               Application  07/781,5641                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before THOMAS, 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 1 through 13, all of the claims pending in the                       
          application.                                                                
               The invention pertains to a method and apparatus for                   
          analyzing source code.  More particularly, the invention employs            
          an independent parse tree, derived from a dependent parse tree              
          representing the source code.  While the dependent parse tree is            
          dependent on either the source code’s language or on the                    


                                                                                     
          1    Application for patent filed October 22, 1991.                         





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