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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte RICHARD J. KAMPS, JANICA S. BEHNKE, FUNG-JOU CHEN, BERNHARDT E. KRESSNER and JANICE G. NIELSEN ____________ Appeal No. 96-2630 Application 08/259,8241 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and STAAB and McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges. McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This appeal is from the final rejection of claims 23 through 30. Claims 32 through 48, the only other claims pending in the application, stand allowed. The subject matter on appeal pertains to a tissue sheet. Claims 23 and 26 are representative and read as follows: 1Application for patent filed June 15, 1994. According to the appellants, the application is a continuation of Application 08/046,789, filed April 12, 1993, now abandoned.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007