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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte THOMAS R. TICE,
DEBORAH L. DILLON,
DAVID W. MASON,
AMANDA MCRAE-MCFARLANE
and ANNICA B. DAHLSTROM
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Appeal No. 1998-0143
Application No. 08/268,1771
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ON BRIEF
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Before WINTERS, ROBINSON, and SPIEGEL, 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 11 through 15. Claims 9 and 10, the only other claims pending in
this application, have been indicated as allowable by the examiner.2
1 Application for patent filed June 29, 1994. According to appellants, this application is a
continuation-in-part of application 08/033,309 filed March 15, 1993, now U.S. Patent 5,360,610 issued
November 1, 1994, which is a continuation of application 07/525,383 filed May 16, 1990, now abandoned.
2 See page 4 of the final Office action (Paper No. 8, mailed December 21, 1995).
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