1 The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for 2 publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. 3 4 5 6 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 7 _____________ 8 9 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS 10 AND INTERFERENCES 11 _____________ 12 13 Ex parte GERALD FRANCIS MCBREARTY, SHAWN PATRICK MULLEN, 14 and JOHNNY MENG-HAN SHIEH 15 _____________ 16 17 Appeal No. 2007-0731 18 Application No. 09/899,454 19 Technology Center 2100 20 ______________ 21 22 Decided: April 24, 2007 23 _______________ 24 25 Before ANITA PELLMAN GROSS, STUART S. LEVY, and ROBERT E. NAPPI 26 Administrative Patent Judges. 27 28 NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judge. 29 30 31 DECISION ON APPEAL 32 33 This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 of the final rejection of 34 claims 1 through 36. For the reasons stated infra we affirm the Examiner’s 35 rejection of these claims. 36Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Next
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