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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today was not written for publication and is not
binding precedent of the Board.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
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte OWEN R. CLINE, CRAIG J. HUBBELL and
VINODKUMAR M. JESSANI
Appeal No. 2002-1282
Application No. 08/778,459
ON BRIEF
Before THOMAS, KRASS and BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judges.
KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of
claims 28-33, 35, 38-46, 48, 49, 51-59 and 61-66.1 Claims 34,
36, 37, 47, 50 and 60 have been indicated by the examiner as
1We note that while the statement of rejection at page 3 of
the answer refers to claims “28-63,” it appears that the existing
claims are “28-66.” Moreover, since the examiner indicates some
claims to be directed to allowable subject matter, the explicit
statement of rejection appears to be in error.
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