The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte STEVEN P. JOBS and DONALD J. LINDSAY ____________ Appeal No. 2004-0870 Application No. 09/477,419 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ 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 willPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007