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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 26
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JOSEPH E. PROVINO, JAMES D. DAVIS, and MARC S. DYE
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Appeal No. 2000-0883
Application No. 08/672,528
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HEARD: June 11, 2002
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Before RUGGIERO, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, 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 45, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellants’ invention relates to a communication mechanism
for and method of passing information within an operating system
environment between computer-implemented applications running in
the environment that employ different memory addressing modes.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as
follows:
1. A communication mechanism for passing information
within an operating system environment between computer-
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