The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte ALBRECHT DEMMIG, HANS-ULRICH DIETZE, HUBERTUS H3HNE, and SEBASTIAN BENENOWSKI _____________ Appeal No. 2001-2378 Application No. 09/479,932 ______________ HEARD: NOVEMBER 13, 2001 _______________ Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges. STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4, 6-12 and 14-17. Claim 13 has been canceled (see Paper No. 8). Dependent claims 5 and 18, the only other claims currently pending in the application, have been objected to by the examiner (see Paper No. 9) and apparentlyPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007