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                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                        
                                     AND INTERFERENCES                                             
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                                   Ex parte CARL T. WITTWER                                        
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                                         Appeal 2007-0319                                          
                                      Application 10/074,169                                       
                                     Technology Center 1600                                        
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                                     Decided: October 31, 2007                                     
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              Before TONI R. SCHEINER, LORA M. GREEN, and NANCY J. LINCK,                          
              Administrative Patent Judges.                                                        
              LINCK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                  

                                     DECISION ON APPEAL                                            
                    This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to an                 
              automated method for detecting and reporting the presence of nucleic acids           
              using polymerase chain reaction, a fluorescent detecting entity, and a               
              melting temperature analysis.  The Examiner has rejected all the claims              
              based on two grounds: obviousness-type double patenting and under 35                 
              U.S.C. § 103(a).  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).                       








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