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not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte AXEL BOETTCHER, HERMANN HENSEN,
AND WERNER SEIPEL
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Appeal No. 2002-0089
Application 09/331,6471
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ON BRIEF
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Before: SCHAFER, TORCZON and TIERNEY, Administrative Patent Judges.
TIERNEY, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. §134 from the examiner’s refusal to allow
claims 8-20. We affirm the rejection of claims 8-20 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) over Schambil,
CA 1,334,458. We reverse all other examiner rejections that were made in the Examiner’s
Answer (Paper No. 13).
1Application for patent filed on June 23, 1999. This application is said to claim benefit of
PCT Application PCT/EP98/00279, filed January 20, 1998 which itself claims benefit of German
Application DE 197 03 087.4, filed January 29, 1997. The real party in interest is Cognis
Deutschland GmbH.
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