The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte KARELLE L. CORNWELL, BARBARA T. COUCH, ROBERT W. LYLE, JAMES ZU-CHIA TENG and JULIE A. WATTS __________ Appeal No. 2001-1605 Application 08/735,168 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before FLEMING, DIXON, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 30, all the claims pending in the instant application. Invention The invention relates to a system and method within the field of database management for providing concurrent access to database contents by individually locking partitions of a table 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007