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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 28
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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1
Ex parte LATA RAMANTHAN , GAIL F. SEELIG
and PAUL P. TROTTA
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Appeal No. 1997-0711
Application No. 08/271,5392
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ON BRIEF
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Before WINTERS, SPIEGEL, and MILLS, Administrative Patent Judges.
SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner finally
rejecting claims 12 and 13 and refusing to allow claim 11 as amended subsequent to the
final rejection, which are all of the claims pending in this application.3
1 We note that the declaration (p. 2) has typed the "Full name of sole or first inventor" as "Lata
Ramanthan" while the signature appears as "Lata Ramanathan."
2 Application for patent filed July 7, 1994. According to appellants, this application is a
continuation of application 07/859,689 filed June 11, 1992, now abandoned, which is the United States
national application corresponding to international application no. PCT/US90/07289 filed December 18,
1990 under 35 U.S.C. § 371, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application no. 07/453,570
filed December 20, 1989, now abandoned.
3 Entry of the amendment filed July 29, 1996 (Paper No. 23) amending claim 11 was authorized by
the examiner in the supplemental examiner's answer (Paper No. 24, mailed October 16, 1996, p. 1).
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