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              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              written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                           
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                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                              
                                AND INTERFERENCES                                     
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                           Ex parte KENNETH S. KNAPTON III                            
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                                Appeal No. 2005-0523                                  
                             Application No. 10/264,733                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          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 different           






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