Ex parte EDWARD A. SCHROEDER - Page 1




                                  THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                

                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered                                                                 
                         today (1) was not written for publication in a law                                                                   
                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                               
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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 EDWARD A. SCHROEDER                                                                   
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                                                        Appeal No. 95-0575                                                                    
                                                    Application 07/921,6451                                                                   
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                                                      HEARD: June 10, 1997                                                                    
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                Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent                                                                   
                Judges.                                                                                                                       
                McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                         


                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 1 through                                                          
                10, 13 through 20 and 22 through 24, all of the claims pending in                                                             
                the application.                                                                                                              
                         The invention relates to “an adjustable height basketball                                                            
                backboard support system wherein the basketball backboard is                                                                  
                mounted to a support post through a parallelogram linkage and                                                                 

                         1Application for patent filed July 30, 1992.  According to                                                           
                the appellant, the application is a continuation-in-part of                                                                   
                Application 07/889,124, filed May 27, 1992, now abandoned.                                                                    





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