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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARK RASPER and TIM RULSEH
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Appeal No. 2002-0986
Application No. 09/222,282
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, NASE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's rejection of claim 1. Claim 2,
the only other claim pending in this application, stands withdrawn from consideration as
being directed to a non-elected invention.
We REVERSE.
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a cutting apparatus comprising a non-rotating
circular knife provided with an indexing device for automatically indexing the knife to
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