The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not
written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte RICHARD RASHMAN
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Appeal No. 2000-0798
Application No. 08/410,852
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ON BRIEF
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Before CALVERT, ABRAMS, and STAAB, Administrative Patent
Judges.
CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 to
13, all the claims remaining in the application.
The claims on appeal are drawn to an autoclavable medical
instrument (claims 1 to 6) and a method of making a medical
instrument (claims 7 to 13). The examiner states (answer,
page 3) that claims 1 and 7 are erroneously presented in the
appendix (Appendix A) of appellant’s brief, and are correctly
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