The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 26 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte KETAN DALAL and RAJA KRISHNASWAMY Appeal No. 2001-2581 Application No. 08/847,124 ON BRIEF Before HAIRSTON, KRASS and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-22. The invention pertains to object-oriented programming techniques. In particular, the invention locates enclosing objects, providing a computer-based method and system for identifying the most-enclosing object that encloses an object of -1–Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007