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not binding precedent of the Board.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 JAMES M. CLAUSS,
KEVIN M. LINSCOTT
AND DAVID J. FORD
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Appeal No. 2006-0837
Application No. 10/081,446
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ON BRIEF
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Before BARRETT, RUGGIERO, and MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judges.
MACDONALD, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 16-45. Claims 1-15 have
been canceled. Claims 46-47 are allowed.
Invention
Appellants’ invention relates to a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for
processing and representing error messages within a computer-aided design environment. An
occurrence of a software event that results in an error or a warning is recognized.
An indication of the error/warning is stored in an error/warning storage structure. A result is
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