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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GERAILD J. JULIEN
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Appeal No. 2002-0018
Application No. 09/231,897
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-4, 16-19 and
24-36, all the claims currently pending in the application. Upon further review, the examiner now
considers (see Paper No. 14) that dependent claim 4 would be allowable if rewritten in independent
form to include all the limitations of base claim 1 from which it depends. Consequently, only the
rejections of claims 1-3, 16-19 and 24-36 remain before us for review.
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