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was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of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. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte KEVIN D. SIKKEMA,
DAWN M. ORBECK and ROBERT G. NELB II
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Appeal No. 1998-3251
Application 08/659,554
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, DELMENDO and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal and Opinion
We have carefully considered the record in this appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134, including the
opposing view of the examiner, in the answer, and appellants, in the brief, and based on our review, find
that we cannot sustain the ground of rejection of appealed claims 1 through 14, as amended subsequent
to the final rejection,1 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Kent et al. (Kent) taken with
Neukrichen et al. and Swartzmiller et al. (Swartzmiller), which ground encompasses all of the claims in
1 See specification, pages 10-11.
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