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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte WILLIAM R. COUSINS, FRANZ BADIAS and WILLIAM S. MEANS
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Appeal No. 2002-0814
Application No. 09/112,261
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, GROSS, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-20, all the claims pending in the instant application.
Invention
The invention relates generally to a method and apparatus
that evaluates an expression based upon results obtained from a
database. See page 1 of Appellants' specification. Existing
databases already determine whether the syntax of a database
query is valid, determine whether records of the database satisfy
the criteria of the database query, and generate a database
result table that includes each record of the database which
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