Ex Parte BERTELLOTTI 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                                   today was not written for publication and is not binding                                           
                                   precedent of the Board.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. 18                            
                                   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                          
                                                         _______________                                                              
                                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                            
                                                     AND INTERFERENCES                                                                
                                                         _______________                                                              
                                          Ex parte CHRISTOPHER P. BERTELLOTTI,                                                        
                                           COLIN DRUMMOND, MARK HECKLER,                                                              
                                                JOSEPH ROGARI and DON URIG                                                            
                                                         ______________                                                               
                                                      Appeal No. 2001-0774                                                            
                                                      Application 09/087,521                                                          
                                                         _______________                                                              
                                                             ON BRIEF                                                                 
                                                         _______________                                                              
               Before WARREN, OWENS and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                          
               WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                   
                                                 Decision on Appeal and Opinion                                                       
                       The record shows that in the final rejection of December 3, 1999 (Paper No. 8), the                            
               examiner set forth twelve (12) grounds of rejection which in sum encompassed all of appealed                           
               claims 1 through 28, which are all of the claims in the application.1  Appellants acknowledged all                     
               of the grounds of rejection in the brief (pages 2-3), identified a dispositive issue in each of the                    
               grounds of rejection, and based thereon, submitted four sets of appealed claims based on                               
               common dispositive issues (id., pages 4-6).  The examiner selected appealed claims 1, 2, 16 and                        
               25 as respectively representative of appellants’ four claim groupings, and advanced one ground                         
               of rejection on appeal for each group of appealed claims on which to decide this appeal (answer,                       



                                                             - 1 -                                                                    



Page:  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  Next 

Last modified: November 3, 2007