Ex Parte KLEVEN 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                                publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25                        
                                                                                                                       
                              UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                 
                                                   _____________                                                        
                                   BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                   
                                               AND INTERFERENCES                                                        
                                                   _____________                                                        
                            Ex parte LOWELL A. KLEVEN and  BRAD L. LESMEISTER                                           
                                                   _____________                                                        
                                                Appeal No. 2001-0778                                                    
                                             Application No. 08/717,995                                                 
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                                                      ON BRIEF                                                          
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              Before CAROFF, PAK and POTEATE,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                            
              CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      

                                               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                       

                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-2, 4-5,               
              7 and 10.  The examiner has indicated that claims 11-13, the only other claims pending                    
              in appellants’ involved application, would be allowable if rewritten in independent form.                 
                     The claims on appeal are directed to a flowmeter tube having an inner surface                      
              coated with a layer of a bonding metal, e.g., aluminum, and having a fluoropolymer liner                  
              bonded to an exposed surface of the bonding layer.                                                        


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