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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 GUIDO MAFFEZZONI
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Appeal No. 2003-1533
Application No. 09/566,910
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ON BRIEF
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Before BARRETT, GROSS, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 31, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.
Appellant's invention relates to a method for protecting
data of a computer system involving copying the operating system
stored on one partition of the hard drive to another partition of
the hard drive and copying selected data, such as application
files and user data files, from the hard drive to a backup
location. Then, if a crash occurs that prevents the computer
system from booting from the original operating system, the
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