Ex Parte TAVERNIER 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          written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                    ____________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                    
                                    ____________                                      
                    Ex parte SERGE TAVERNIER, WERNER OP DE BEECK,                     
                      JEAN-PIERRE GHEKIERE, and MICHEL VERVOORT                       
                                    ____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 1998-2128                                  
                             Application No. 08/628,281                               
                                    ____________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                    ____________                                      
          Before GARRIS, PAK, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.                                   


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                 
          rejection of claims 1-11.  Claim 1-12 are all of the claims                 
          pending in the application.1                                                

              We AFFIRM.                                                             


                                                                                     
          1   Appellants indicate that the examiner acknowledged allowable subject    
          matter in claim 12.  The office action of Paper No. 10, on page 5, indicates
          that claim 12 has been objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base  
          claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all
          of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.  Hence, the
          status of claim 12 remains as being objected to by the examiner.            





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