Ex Parte FISCHER 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                                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 SIEGMAR FISCHER, ERNST-WILHELM ALTENAU,                                            
                                   RALF AUMUND-KOPP and GUNTER SIKORSKI                                                 
                                                     ____________                                                       
                                                 Appeal No. 2002-0342                                                   
                                               Application No. 09/295,399                                               
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                                                       ON BRIEF                                                         
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              Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                          
              ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      


                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                      


                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 4, 6                 
              and 7.  Claims 2 and 8-14 have been withdrawn as being directed to a non-elected                          
              invention, and claims 3, 5 and 15 have been canceled.                                                     


                     We REVERSE.                                                                                        









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