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            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11                                                      
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                     
                                     ____________                                   
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
                                     ____________                                   
                    Ex parte MICHAEL L. BEIGEL, NATHANIEL POLISH,                   
                          STEVEN R. FRANK and ROBERT E. MALM                        
                                     ____________                                   
                                 Appeal No. 2005-0171                               
                              Application No. 10/064,380                            
                                     ____________                                   
                                       ON BRIEF                                     
                                     ____________                                   
         Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent           
         Judges.                                                                    
         RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              This is a decision on the appeal from the Examiner’s rejection        
         of claims 1-17, 20-25, 32, 36-45, 47-68, and 70-80.                        
              The disclosed invention relates to an electronic                      
         identification system in which the identifying agency and the              
         object to be identified cooperate in the identification process.           
         More particularly, an interrogator (reader) is inductively coupled         
         to a transponder (tag) in which the reader is associated with the          
         identifying agency and the tag is associated with the object to be         




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