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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                                  for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                        


                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                     
                                           AND INTERFERENCES                                                        
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                                               Ex parte YING DING,                                                  
                                  BRIAN HALSALL and WILLIAM R. HEINEMAN                                             
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                                              Appeal No. 2006-0703                                                  
                                            Application No. 09/268,437                                              
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                                                    ON BRIEF                                                        
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                 Before SCHEINER, GRIMES, and GREEN, Administrative Patent Judges.                                  
                 GREEN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                

                                             DECISION ON APPEAL                                                     
                       This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s                       
                 final rejection of claims 1-5, 11 and 12.1  Claims 1, 11 and 12 are representative                 
                 of the claims on appeal, and read as follows:                                                      
                    1. A simultaneous electrochemical assay device comprising a cell                                
                           adapted to receive a sample, said cell having a surface having a                         
                           plurality of analyte binding areas, each of said analyte binding areas                   
                           having a different specific analyte binding substrate; and a plurality of                
                           working electrodes adapted to quantitatively measure enzymatic                           
                           reaction product, each working electrode adjacent to one analyte                         
                           binding area and separated from the nearest adjacent analyte binding                     
                                                                                                                    
                 1 Claims 6-9 are also pending, but stand withdrawn from consideration as being drawn to a non-     
                 elected invention.                                                                                 





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