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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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APPLICATION NO. FILING DATE FIRST NAMED INVENTOR ATTORNEY DOCKET NO. CONFIRMATION NO.
13/444,471 04/11/2012 ASIT DAN CAM920120016US1_8150-0163 1000
112978 7590 03/18/2021
Cuenot, Forsythe & Kim, LLC
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EXAMINER
BEHNCKE, CHRISTINE M
ART UNIT PAPER NUMBER
3697
NOTIFICATION DATE DELIVERY MODE
03/18/2021 ELECTRONIC
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PTOL-90A (Rev. 04/07)
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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Ex parte ASIT DAN and MIKE A. MARIN1
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Appeal 2019-006992
Application 13/444,471
Technology Center 3600
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Before GREGG I. ANDERSON, AARON W. MOORE, and
PHILLIP A. BENNETT, Administrative Patent Judges.
MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
1 IBM Corporation is the real party in interest (see App. Br. 1) and
“Appellant” is the “applicant” of 37 C.F.R. § 1.42(a).
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Appeal 2019-006992
Application 13/444,471
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STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Appellant appeals under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from a Final Rejection of
claims 41–60, which are all of the pending claims.2
We have jurisdiction
under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
We affirm.
THE INVENTION
The application relates to “business process applications and, more
particularly, to using decision management for business process application
development.” (Spec. ¶ 3.) Claim 41, reproduced below, exemplifies the
subject matter now on appeal:
41. A computer hardware system, comprising:
memory elements including a business process development tool; and
a hardware processor configured to initiate the following executable
operations:
creating, by the business process development tool, a
programmatic representation of a business process;
identifying, within the programmatic representation of the business
process, an insertion point corresponding to a decision to be
performed during the business process;
generating, within the programmatic representation of the business
process and at the insertion point, a decision reference;
presenting, using the business process development tool, a plurality
of different decision modes capable of being associated with the
decision;
2 In an earlier appeal, we affirmed a rejection of claim 40 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 112, a rejection of claims 9 and 25–40 under 35 U.S.C. § 101, and a
rejection of claims 9 and 25–40 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a). Claims 1–40
have been canceled. (See App. Br. 2.)