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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte ALFRED JOSEPH FONTES, JR.
Appeal No. 2003-1954
Application No. 09/296,020
ON BRIEF
Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1, 2 and 5-32.
The invention pertains to determining object equality. More particularly, two graphical
software objects are compared to determine differences therebetween. Then, a program displays
an altered version of one of the graphical objects where the display indicates the differences
between the two objects. By displaying the differences, it is said that a user can easily determine
the changes made between one version of a drawing and another.
Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
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