Ex Parte McGowan, - Page 1



             The opinion in support of the decision being entered          
             today was not written for publication in a law journal        
             and is not binding precedent of the Board.                    

                   UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE               
                              ________________                             
                      BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                   
                             AND INTERFERENCES                             
                              ________________                             
                        Ex parte JAMES E. McGOWAN, JR.                     
                              ________________                             
                            Appeal No. 2006-1610                           
                          Application No. 09/826,420                       
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                            HEARD:  June 6, 2006                           
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        Before KIMLIN, JEFFREY T. SMITH, and FRANKLIN, Administrative      
        Patent Judges.                                                     
        KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                               

                             DECISION ON APPEAL                            
             This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-36.    
        Claim 1 is illustrative:                                           
             1. A medical article sterilization device comprising:         
             a pretreatment area for medical articles, the pretreatment    
        area having a heat source to heat the medical articles;            
             a device to form a housing in a first web;                    
             an article loading station where a medical article heated     
        in the pretreatment area is loaded into the housing in the first   
        web;                                                               
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