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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FIORENZO RENZI, ANDREA BENDANDI, ROBERTO FORESTIERI,
and NEREO NODARI
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Appeal No. 2003-1960
Application No. 09/830,841
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ON BRIEF
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Before PAK, WALTZ, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the primary examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 through 27, which are the only claims
in this application.1 The examiner has indicated that claim 27 is
no longer rejected, but is objected to as being dependent upon
a rejected base claim and would be allowable if rewritten in
independent form including all of the limitations of the base
1An amendment subsequent to the final rejection, filed with
the Brief dated Sep. 3, 2002, Paper No. 13, amended claim 25 on
appeal and was entered as noted in the Answer, page 2.
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