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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board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. 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 HUGH E. FARGHER and RICHARD A. SMITH
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Appeal No. 1998-3416
Application 08/096,538
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HEARD: MARCH 6, 2001
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Before THOMAS, BARRETT, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's final rejection of claims
1 through 12, which constitute all the claims in the application.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced below:
1. An apparatus for generating a plan, comprising:
circuitry for reading a list of priorities including both planner goals and scheduling
goals and a goals list including goals indicating either a planner goal or a schedule goal
comprising;
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