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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte DANIEL FRANCIS LIEUWEN, AKIRA KAWAGUCHI,
INDERPAL SINGH MUMICK, DALLAN WENDELL QUASS
and KENNETH A. ROSS
Appeal No. 2003-1062
Application No. 09/004,265
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 1-28.
The invention pertains to database management systems. In
particular, concurrency control in materialized views of a
database is maintained. As explained in the principal brief,
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