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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ALAN W. CARTER
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Appeal No. 2000-1704
Application No. 08/484,999
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRY and LEVY, Administrative Patent Judges.
JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from
the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-3, 17-21 and 23-25. Claims 4-
16 and 22 have been allowed by the examiner.
The disclosed invention pertains to the field of compiling
computer programming language source code into executable software
programs. More particularly, the invention addresses the problem
of maintaining compatibility of successively modified and compiled
versions of a program with all other programs that make use of such
program.
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