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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 31
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JOHN P. KANE and KARL D. SACHS
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Appeal No. 2004-1500
Application No. 09/736,673
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ON BRIEF
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Before GARRIS, PAK, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
GARRIS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of
claims 1-30 which were at that time all of the claims pending in
this application. On page 2 of the answer, the Examiner withdrew
his prior art rejection of claims 4, 8 and 13-30, although his
double patenting rejections of claims 1-30 were maintained.
Subsequent to the answer, the Appellants filed a terminal
disclaimer and claim amendment in an attempt to obviate the
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