The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte CHRISTIAN SCHADE, AXEL S. SANNER, HANS-ULRICH WEKEL, FRANZ FROSCH and HORST WESTENFELDER ________________ Appeal No. 1998-3101 Application 08/313,175 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before OWENS, TIMM and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the examiner’s refusal to allow claims 1, 3 and 4 as amended after final rejection. Claims 5, 7 and 8, which are all of the other claims remaining in the application, stand withdrawn from consideration by the examiner as being directed toward a nonelected invention. -1-1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007