The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte STEVEN J. SMOLSKI ____________ Appeal No. 2000-1209 Application No. 08/711,180 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before HAIRSTON, LALL, and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges. LALL, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-18, which constitute all the pending claims in the application. According to appellants (brief at page 3 and 4), the present invention relates generally to methods and program products operable in a computer for changing configuration/setup parameters in an embedded controller type computer system, which computer system is characterized by the absence of any keyboard or videoPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007