Ex parte ZOBEL - Page 1




                                  THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                
                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered                                                                 
                         today (1) was not written for publication in a law                                                                   
                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                               
                                                                                                         Paper No. 19                         
                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                                               Ex parte MICHAEL G. R. ZOBEL                                                                   
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                                                        Appeal No. 95-4359                                                                    
                                                Application No. 08/041,1901                                                                   
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                                                   HEARD: January 15, 1998                                                                    
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                Before McQUADE, NASE, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                             
                NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                            



                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                                                               
                rejection of claims 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9 through 12, which are all of                                                             
                the claims pending in this application.2                                                                                      



                         1Application for patent filed April 1, 1993.  According to                                                           
                the appellant, the application is a continuation of Application                                                               
                No. 07/623,675, filed December 6, 1990, now abandoned, which was                                                              
                a continuation of Application No. 07/377,071, filed July 10,                                                                  
                1989, now abandoned.                                                                                                          
                         2Claim 5 has been amended subsequent to the final rejection                                                          
                by an amendment filed on September 30, 1994 (Paper No. 12).                                                                   





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