The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was
not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte OTTO NEUNER,
NORBERT LUI, DIETMAR BIELEFELDT,
and MICHAEL HOLZBRECHER
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Appeal No. 2001-2300
Application No. 09/152,595
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HEARD: January 22, 2003
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Before OWENS, WALTZ, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.1
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s refusal to
allow claims 2–7 and 9-11, the remaining claims in this
application.
Claim 11 is representative of the subject matter on appeal
and is set forth below:
1 One of the members of this merits panel has been substituted for a member at
the oral hearing. See In re Bose, 772 F.2d 866, 868, 227 USPQ 1, 2 (Fed.
Cir. 1985).
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