Ex parte CAMPBELL - Page 1




                       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                                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23                        
                                         UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                      
                                                                   ____________                                                                         
                                               BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                       
                                                              AND INTERFERENCES                                                                         
                                                                   ____________                                                                         
                                                     Ex parte DONALD A. CAMPBELL                                                                        
                                                                   ____________                                                                         
                                                           Appeal No. 2001-1404                                                                         
                                                      Application No. 09/145,399                                                                        
                                                                   ____________                                                                         
                                                        HEARD: NOVEMBER 27, 2001                                                                        
                                                                   ____________                                                                         
                 Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                         
                 COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                    



                                                             DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                         


                          This appeal involves claims 1, 2, 4, 6 through 8, 13                                                                          
                 through 15, 19, 20, and 25.   Claims 3, 5, 9 through 12, 17,1                                                                                     
                 18, and 22 through 24 stand allowed. Claim 16 stands objected                                                                          
                 to because of it dependency from a rejected claim  but is                                                                              


                          1To correct an omission regarding claim 8 in the Office                                                                       
                 action dated June 9, 2000 (Paper No. 12) from which the appeal                                                                         
                 was taken, the examiner sent a further Office action dated                                                                             
                 November 3, 2000 (Paper No. 16), responded to by appellant in                                                                          
                 the “SUPPLEMENT TO APPLICANT’S APPEAL BRIEF” (Paper No. 17).                                                                           





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