Ex parte KEVORKIAN et al. - Page 1




                                   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                                  and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16                                 

                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                          Ex parte GREGORY KEVORKIAN, DAN SMOLKO                                                                        
                                                         and VLADIMIR LEVITIN1                                                                          
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                                                          Appeal No. 2000-1782                                                                          
                                                    Application No. 08/933,639                                                                          
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before ABRAMS, McQUADE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                         
                 McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                  

                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          Gregory Kevorkian et al. originally took this appeal from                                                                     
                 the final rejection (Paper No. 4) of claims 1 through 20, all                                                                          
                 of the claims pending in the application.   Upon review of the            2                                                            
                 appellants’ brief (Paper No. 8), the examiner issued an Office                                                                         

                          1The record indicates that the listing of Gregory I.                                                                          
                 Kevorkian on the file jacket as a sole inventor is inaccurate.                                                                         

                          2The references in the final rejection to nonexistent                                                                         
                 claim 21 are erroneous.                                                                                                                





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