Ex parte KOLB 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                          journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the                                                                               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.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                Paper No. 19                            
                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                                      Ex parte ALFRED J. KOLB,                                                                          
                                            ROY L. MANNS and KENNETH E. NEUMANN                                                                         
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                                                           Appeal No. 96-0401                                                                           
                                                    Application No. 08/127,3041                                                                         
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
                                                                 ____________                                                                           
                 Before COHEN, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                           
                 NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                     


                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           
                          This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                                                                        
                 rejection of claims 1-8, 10-12, 14-21, 32 and 33.  Claims 22-                                                                          
                 31 have been withdrawn from consideration under 37 CFR §                                                                               
                 1.142(b) as being drawn to a nonelected invention.  Claims 9                                                                           
                 and 13 have been canceled.  The appellants have confined the                                                                           
                 appeal to only claims 1-8, 10-12, 14, 15, 32 and 33 (brief, p.                                                                         
                 2).  Consequently, the appeal is dismissed with respect to                                                                             

                          1Application for patent filed September 27, 1993.                                                                             



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