Ex Parte BAUER 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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                      Ex parte DAVID P. BAUER and DUANE C. NEWMAN                     
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                                 Appeal No. 2001-0882                                 
                              Application No. 08/950,965                              
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                                       ON BRIEF                                       
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          Before KRATZ, PAWLIKOWSKI and POTEATE, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         

                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 1, 2 and 8-17.  Claims 18-30, which are all             
          of the other claims that remain pending in this application,                
          stand withdrawn from further consideration by the examiner as               
          drawn to a non-elected invention.                                           
                                     BACKGROUND                                       
               Appellants’ invention relates to a system for consolidating            
          powders.  An understanding of the invention can be derived from a           
          reading of exemplary claim 1, which is reproduced below.                    








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