Ex parte LAMBERT et al. - 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                    (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 THOMAS P. LAMBERT,                                                                                      
                                                              and GREGORY A. LUDGATE                                                                                       
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                                                                   Appeal No. 96-0356                                                                                      
                                                              Application 08/163,6351                                                                                      
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                                                                             ON BRIEF                                                                                      
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                    Before COHEN, McQUADE and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                                      
                    CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                                 

                                                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                                      
                              This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final                                                                                    
                    rejection of claims 1, 3-5, 7-9 and 11.  Claims 2, 6, 10 and 14                                                                                        
                    have been canceled.  Claims 12, 13, 15 and 16 are allowed.                                                                                             
                    Appellants’ claimed subject matter is an apparatus for moving a                                                                                        
                    sheet.  Claim 1 is exemplary of the subject matter on appeal and                                                                                       
                    recites:                                                                                                                                               

                              1Application for patent filed December 9, 1993.                                                                                              
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