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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RANDAL CHILTON BURNS and ROBERT MICHAEL REES
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Appeal No. 2003-1770
Application No. 09/526,155
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, 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 3 and 12. Claims 7 through 11 and
16 through 18 have been allowed and claims 4 through 6 and 13
through 15 have been indicated as reciting allowable subject
matter.
Appellants' invention relates to a system for managing
access to data using locks to ensure that one user is not
updating shared data by writing to it while another user is
reading an outdated version of the same data. The system uses
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