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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DANIEL RODMAN HICKS
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Appeal No. 2002-1324
Application No. 09/024,111
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ON BRIEF
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Before HAIRSTON, KRASS, and JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-69, all of the
pending claims.
The invention is directed to the use of file attributes to associate one computer
program with another. A second set of program code is generated from a first set of
program code and the second set of program code is associated with a retrieved file
using a file attribute.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
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