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(2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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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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