The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GREGORY L. RAIZ, CHRISTOPHER A. EVANS, LOUIS AMADIO
and AARON B. TINLING
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Appeal No. 2006-0538
Application No. 09/827,957
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, HAIRSTON and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 through 20. Representative claim 1
is reproduced below:
1. A method for displaying a focus state of a user
interface element in a graphical user interface of a
computing system, the method comprising:
testing whether a control state of the user interface
element is a disabled state or an active state;
if the control state is the active state, detecting if
the user interface element is in a focus state;
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