THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION
The opinion in support of the decision entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding
precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 14
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JAMES M. O’CONNOR, FRED A. STUBER,
KIRAN B. CHANDALIA and ADAM G. MALOFSKY
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Appeal No. 1997-1787
Application 08/296,6281
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ON BRIEF
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Before McKELVEY, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and SCHAFER and LEE, Administrative
Patent Judges.
SCHAFER, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Applicants appeal from the final rejection of claims 11-14, and 16-22, all of the claims in the
application. The examiner rejected all the claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over the
combination of U.S. Patent 3,716,535 issued to Markiewitz and U.S. Patent 4,456,658 issued to
Kubitza. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134. We reverse.
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Application for patent filed August 26, 1994. According to appellant, the
application is a division of Application 08/065,009 filed May 24, 1993, now Patent No.
5,370,908, granted December 6, 1994.
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