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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte JAMES A. RUDDY
Appeal No. 2002-1756
Application No. 09/037,879
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-31.
The invention is directed to the recovery of data
definitions using log records in a database management system.
Such log records maintain a record of all additions and
deletions of information regarding data definitions from the
system catalog of the database management system. The instant
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