Ex parte BECK et al. - Page 1




               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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 23         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                     ____________                                     
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                     ____________                                     
               Ex parte JOHN L. BECK, JEFFREY F. BOIGENZAHN, DARRELL E.               
             BRATVOLD, CHARLES A. BROWN, LUKE A. COSSETTE, DALE C. GOEKE,             
            MICHAEL S. GOOD, DALE E. GOODMAN, RICHARD E. LAGERGREN, GREGORY           
                                      A. LYONS,                                       
                 BRIAN L. RAPPEL, JAMES M. RIGOTTI, DANIEL C. STUCKY,                 
                          LYLE R. TUFTY, and HERMAN R. WENDT                          
                                     ____________                                     
                                 Appeal No. 1998-1465                                 
                              Application No. 08/445,926                              
                                     ____________                                     
                                       ON BRIEF                                       
                                     ____________                                     
          Before HAIRSTON, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8 through 10.  Claims 3,                
          5, 7, 11 through 15, and 26 through 34 have been canceled, and              
          claims 16 through 25 have been withdrawn from consideration as              
          being drawn to a nonelected invention.                                      







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