The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte SCOTT H. DANFORTH _____________ Appeal No. 1999-1842 Application No. 08/042,930 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before KRASS, JERRY SMITH and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-21, all of the pending claims. The invention is directed to the specification of a metaclass for an object-oriented class object while insuring that the metaclass will fully support class instances 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007