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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SHARON M. DEVEREAUX
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Appeal No. 1997-4132
Application No. 08/263,5001
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ON BRIEF
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Before ROBINSON, SPIEGEL, and MILLS, 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 1, 2, 4 through 10, 12 and 14 through 20, which are all of the claims
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pending in this application. Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. An article comprising a unit-of-use reagent composition for a
specific binding assay, said article comprising:
1Application for patent filed June 21, 1994. According to appellant, this application is a
continuation of application no. 07/776,518 filed October 11, 1991, now abandoned.
2We note that application no. 07/776,518 was filed without an original claim 11 and that original
claims 12-20 were never renumbered per 37 CFR 1.126. This clerical error was carried over into the present
application. Consequently, the record does not reflect a cancellation of claim 11 because neither an
originally numbered or a renumbered claim 11 ever existed.
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