The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not precedent of the Board. Paper No. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte THOMAS GOLDSTEIN ____________ Appeal No. 2000-0512 Application No. 08/880,760 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before ABRAMS, GONZALES and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 and 3-8. Claims 9 and 10, the only other claims pending in this application, stand objected to as depending on a rejected base claim. In an amendment filed November 2, 1998 (Paper No. 7), subsequent to the final rejection, claim 1 was amended and claim 2 was canceled. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007