The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 KENNETH S. KNAPTON III ___________ Appeal No. 2005-0523 Application No. 10/264,733 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before JERRY SMITH, DIXON, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5 and 12-17, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application. The disclosed invention pertains to a method and apparatus for creating a truly binary compatible object system in which a second object may be snapped into a container or client containing a first object and the second object may be utilized without recompiling. No recompiling in the invention is necessary even though the first and second objects have differentPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007