The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte JUERGEN HAGEDORN and MANFRED HARTMANN ______________ Appeal No. 1998-0273 Application 08/285,892 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before WARREN, OWENS and LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent Judges. WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge. Decision on Appeal and Opinion We have carefully considered the record in this appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134, including the opposing views of the examiner, in the answer, and appellants, in the brief, and based on our review, find that we cannot sustain the rejection of appealed claims 11 through 30,1 all of the claims in the application, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being unpatentable over Hare or Xerox in view of Reed et al. 1 See, e.g., the amendments of August 4, 1994 (Paper No. 15), and November 20, 1995 (Paper No. 17). - 1 -Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007