Ex parte DANFORTH - Page 5

                  Appeal No. 1999-1842                                                                                                                    
                  Application No. 08/042,930                                                                                                              


                  on the side of appellant since, in our view, the examiner has not convincingly shown us that                                            
                  a metaclass is unequivocally the same as a meta-object in the face of appellant’s                                                       
                  strenuous rebuttal that the terms are not equivalent.                                                                                   
                           The examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1-21 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) is                                                      
                  reversed.                                                                                                                               


                                                                    REVERSED                                                                              






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                  eak/vsh                                                                                                                                 


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