Ex Parte WORF et al - Page 1




               The opinion in support of the decision being entered                     
               today was not written for publication in a law journal                   
               and is not binding precedent of the Board.                               
                                                                Paper No. 23            


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                         
                                                                                       
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                            
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                                                                       
                       Ex parte GUNTHER WORF, MICHAEL SAALMANN,                         
                            SVEIN SUNDE and TOM THORMODSEN                              
                                                                                       
                                 Appeal No. 2002-2277                                   
                              Application No. 09/297,527                                
                                                                                       
                                       ON BRIEF                                         
                                                                                       
          Before KIMLIN, PAK and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                   
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                    
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-8,                
          10, 11 and 15.  Claims 9, 12 and 13, the other claims remaining               
          in the present application, have been objected to by the examiner             
          as being dependent on the rejected claims.  Claim 1 is                        
          illustrative:1                                                                


               1 Claim 1 is incorrectly reproduced in appellants' brief.                
          Claim 1 of record appears in appellants' Amendment C, filed                   
          September 8, 2000 (Paper No. 8).                                              
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