The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper 29 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte KIM SVERKER IMMANUEL PETTERSSON and TIMO NILS-ERIK LUVGREN ________________ Appeal No. 2001-1412 Application No. 08/629,1771 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before: TORCZON, SPIEGEL and GARDNER-LANE, 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 through 4, 7 through 17 and 20 through 54, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Claims 1, 2 and 15 are illustrative and are attached as an appendix to this decision. The examiner relies upon the following references as evidence of obviousness: Application for patent filed April 8, 1996.1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007