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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte L. DONALD MAUS, TORNEY M. VAN ACKER and MARK E. EHRHARDT
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Appeal No. 2002-2203
Application No. 09/584,526
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, STAAB and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 12
and 13. Claims 2-11, 19-30 and 331 stand allowed and claim 14 stands objected to as
depending from a rejected claim. No other claims are pending in this application.
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
1 Claim 33 was amended and claims 15-18, 31 and 32 were canceled subsequent to the final
rejection (see Paper Nos. 8 and 9).
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