The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication in a law journal andis not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 9
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte DAVID YU CHANG and JOHN SHIH-YUAN WANG
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Appeal No. 2004-0559
Application No. 09/276,382
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, BLANKENSHIP and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of claims
1 through 14, which constitute all the claims in the application.
Invention
The invention relates to an event notification channel for an object oriented
programming system with a plurality of supplier objects and a plurality of event
consumer objects. The system uses a plurality of proxy consumer objects, each
associated with one of the consumer objects, whereby the proxy consumer objects may
receive supplier transmitted events on behalf of the associated consumer object. Thus
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