Ex Parte Boulineau et al - Page 1



            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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.                 
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
                            Ex parte MICHAEL S. BOULINEAU                             
                                 and THOMAS J. MORAVEC                                
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 2004-0676                                 
                              Application No. 09/562,686                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before PAK, TIMM, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                           
                                                                                     
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the         
          examiner’s final rejection of claims 27 through 37, which are all           
          of the claims pending in the above-identified application.1                 
               1 The appellants inadvertently stated in their Brief that              
          “[t]his is an appeal from the Office action mailed on September             
          4, 2002 finally rejecting claims 27-36, all of the claims in the            
          Application.”  The Notice of Appeal entered May 19, 2003 clearly            
          indicated that the appellants appeal “from the last decision of             
          the examiner” and that the last decision of the examiner involved           
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