The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 27 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte ULLA S. WEIS-FOGH ____________ Appeal No. 1997-0875 Application No. 07/998,1281 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, SPIEGEL, and SCHEINER, Administrative Patent Judges. SPIEGEL, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's final rejection of claims 55 through 64, 67 and 68, which are all of the claims pending in this 2 application. Claims 1 and 68 are illustrative and read as follows: 1Application for patent filed December 29, 1992. According to appellant, this application is a continuation of application no. 07/704,911 filed May 21, 1991, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application no. 07/465,530 filed January 17, 1990, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application no. 07/216,712 filed July 5, 1988 under 35 U.S.C. § 371, now abandoned, which is the national stage of International Patent Application PCT/DK87/00117, having an international filing date of October 2, 1987. 2Entry of the amendment filed May 8, 1995 (Paper No. 16) cancelling non-elected claims 34-54, 65 and 66 was authorized by the examiner in the answer (Paper No. 24, p. 2).Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007