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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TONY RAY LAITURI et al.
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Appeal No. 2003-1648
Application No. 09/648,359
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 2, 5
to 7, 9, 11, 13, 14 and 16 to 21, which are all of the claims pending in this application.1
We REVERSE.
1 Claims 5, 6, 13, 14 and 16 were amended subsequent to the final rejection and claims 3, 4, 8,
10, 12 and 15 were canceled subsequent to the final rejection. While the examiner has approved entry of
the amendment after final rejection (Paper No. 10, filed July 31, 2002), we note that this amendment has
not been clerically entered.
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