The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 41 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte MARKUS FLEISCHLI, FELIX STREIFF and ANDREAS WALDER __________ Appeal No. 1997-0863 Application 08/456,001 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before CALVERT, FRANKFORT, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 14 and 22 through 29. Claims 15 and 16 have been objected to by the examiner as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, and have been indicated to be allowable subject to being rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Claims 17 through 21 have been canceled. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007