Ex Parte Villagran 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                         is not binding precedent of the Board.                       
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                  Ex parte MARIA DOLORES MARTINES-SERNA VILLAGRAN,                    
                       EILEEN MARIE BOYLE and MARKO STOJANOVIC                        
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                                Appeal No. 2005-2462                                  
                             Application No. 09/906,977                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before KIMLIN, JEFFREY T. SMITH and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative             
          Patent Judges.                                                              
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-8.              
               Claim 1 is illustrative:                                               
               1. Dehydrated potato products made by the method comprising:           
               (a) cooking potatoes to a hardness of from about 65 gf                 
               to about 500 gf to form cooked potatoes;                               
               (b) comminuting the cooked potatoes to from a wet mash;                
               (c) dehydrating the wet mash to form dehydrated potato                 
               products.                                                              







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