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was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of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. 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 LEE W. TUTT
and SHARON W. WEBER
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Appeal No. 1996-1887
Application 08/295,315
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HEARD: September 12, 2000
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Before KIMLIN, WARREN and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal and Opinion
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner refusing to allow
claims 7 through 11 as amended subsequent to the final rejection, which are all of the claims remaining in
the application.1
We have carefully considered the record before us, and based thereon, find that we cannot
sustain the grounds of rejection of appealed claims 7 through 11 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over DeBoer
‘572 in view of DeBoer ‘582 and Vanier ‘860 and of appealed claims 7 and 11 over DeBoer ‘572 in
view of DeBoer ‘582 and Vanier ‘860, as applied in the first ground of rejection,
1 See specification, page 19, and the amendment of July 14, 1995 (Paper No. 7).
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