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               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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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            

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