Ex parte GELORME et al. - 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                          journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the                                                                               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. 15                            
                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                                Ex parte JEFFREY D. GELORME, MARTIN J. GOLDBERG,                                                                        
                                             NANCY C. LABIANCA and JANE M. SHAW                                                                         
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                                                           Appeal No. 97-0226                                                                           
                                                    Application No. 08/441,9651                                                                         
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                 Before PAK, WALTZ, and ROBINSON, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                         
                 PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                      
                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          Gelorme et al. (appellants) appeal from the examiner’s                                                                        
                 final rejection of claims 9 through 11 and 16 through 19.                                                                              
                 Claims 22 through 25 stand withdrawn from consideration by the                                                                         
                 examiner as being directed to a nonelected invention.                                                                                  


                          1Application for patent filed May 16, 1995.  According to                                                                     
                 appellants, the application is a division of Application No.                                                                           
                 08/357,789, filed December 16, 1994; which is a continuation                                                                           
                 of Application No. 08/122,886, filed July 13, 1993.                                                                                    





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