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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MICHAEL KERN and IRVIN BURNS
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Appeal No. 2002-1066
Application No. 09/304,021
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, FRANKFORT, and STAAB, 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 1-8 and 19-27, all the claims currently
pending in the application. Subsequent to the final rejection,
the examiner objected to claims 2, 3, 21 and 25 as depending from
rejected claims, but otherwise considered these claims to be
allowable (answer, pages 3-4). Thus, the appeal now involves
only claims 1, 4-8, 19, 20, 22-24, 26 and 27.
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