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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CLIFFORD J. DWYER and TIMOTHY ROBINSON
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Appeal No. 2000-1948
Application No. 08/751,087
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, FRANKFORT and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.
NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 2 to 5, 12, 16 and 17. Claims 6 to 11 and
13 to 15 have been objected to as depending from a non-allowed
claim. Claim 1 has been canceled.1
1In the amendment after final (Paper No. 14, filed July
12, 1999) which was entered by the examiner (see Paper No. 16,
mailed August 4, 1999), the appellants canceled claim 1 and
amended claim 6. In addition, the appellants set forth
amendments to claims 5, 12 and 16, which amendments have not
been entered since the proposed words to be changed (i.e.,
claim 1) do not exist in those claims as those claims were
amended by the amendment filed on October 5, 1998 (Paper No.
11).
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