The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte STEVEN P. JOBS and DONALD J. LINDSAY
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Appeal No. 2004-0870
Application No. 09/477,419
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ON BRIEF
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Before FLEMING, DIXON, and BARRY, Administrative Patent Judges.
BARRY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
A patent examiner rejected claims 1-41. The appellants appeal therefrom under
35 U.S.C. § 134(a). We affirm-in-part.
BACKGROUND
The invention at issue on appeal is a windows-based graphical user interface
("GUI") for multitasking. Multitasking has become a common manner of operating a
computer for many users. A windows-based GUI associates each task with one or
more windows. For example, each document open in a word processing program will
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