The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte JOHN W. VON HOLDT ____________ Appeal No. 1997-4013 Application No. 08/145,867 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges. NASE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the refusal of the examiner to allow claims 26 to 33 and 38 to 40, as amended subsequent to the final rejection. Claims 1 to 9 and 12 to 24 have been allowed. Claims 34 to 37 have been objected to as depending from a non-allowed claim. Claims 10, 11 and 25 have been canceled. We REVERSE.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007