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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 46
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte PATRICIA TEKAMP-OLSON, GUY MULLENBACH
and MARY ELLEN WERNETTE-HAMMOND
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Appeal No. 2001-10481
Application No. 08/121,105
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ON BRIEF
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Before ROBINSON, ADAMS, and GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judges.
ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s
final rejection of claims 26-29, which are all the claims pending in the application.
Claim 26 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
1 This appeal has the same inventive entity as Appeal No. 99-1263 (Application No.
08/487,795, filed June 7, 1995). We note that Application No. 08/487,795 is a
divisional of the instant application on appeal. Accordingly, we have taken this
appeal out of order to review these two related appeals together.
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