The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TIMOTHY RAYMOND HEINDEL, TIM JOSEPH JANSSEN, SCOTT LEE PENNINGS, GARY MACK REYNOLDS, PAUL JOHN SERBIAK, BRUCE MICHAEL SIEBERS, ROBERT EUGENE VOGT and GEORGIA LYNN ZEHNER ____________ Appeal No. 2000-2185 Application No. 08/834,777 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before COHEN, STAAB and 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 35, 43, 44, 48 and 50-57, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claims 35, 43, 44 and 48 were amended subsequent to the final rejection (see Paper No. 7). BACKGROUNDPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007