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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JAMES LYLE PETERSON
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Appeal No. 2002-0700
Application No. 09/145,102
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, OWENS, and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.
MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final
rejection of claims 1-15. Claims 16 and 17 have been allowed.
Thus, only claims 1-15 are before us on this appeal.
REPRESENTATIVE CLAIM
Claims 1, 2, and 3 are representative, and read as follows:
1. A method for initializing variables in a first class
object in an object-oriented program, comprising the steps of:
sending a message from the first class object to a second
class object that it initialize its core variables, wherein the
core variables of the second class object need to be initialized
before core variables in the first class object are initialized,
and
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