Ex parte CONNER et al. - Page 1




               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 9               
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                      Ex parte MICHAEL H. CONNER, NURCAN COSKUN,                      
                          SIMON C. NASH, and DAVID S. RENSHAW                         
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                                 Appeal No. 1999-1890                                 
                              Application No. 08/566,618                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before BARRETT, LALL, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1 through 18, which are all of the claims               
          pending in this application.                                                
               Appellants' invention relates to a method for subclassing              
          system object model objects in an object-oriented dynamic                   
          language.  The method includes steps of creating a proxy class              
          object in the dynamic language having a pointer to a class                  
          object in the system object model environment and creating a                






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