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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 10
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TODD NIX
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Appeal No. 1999-2605
Application No. 08/788,669
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, RUGGIERO, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-11, 17, and 18, which are all of the claims pending in
the present application. Claims 12-16 have been canceled.
The disclosed invention relates to a method for controlling
a multi-state process in which a series of icons representing
phases of a process are displayed. A main action message bar
displays a title indicating an action to be performed which
corresponds to the title of one of the icons. On actuation of
the message bar, the indicated action is performed and the icon
title corresponding to the last performed action is highlighted.
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