The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte BASIL A. OMAR, GRAHAM J. WOODGATE and DAVID EZRA ________________ Appeal No. 1999-0597 Application 08/592,812 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before JERRY SMITH, RUGGIERO and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19, 20 and 22-26. Claims 5, 8, 9, 12, 14-18, 21 and 27-30 stand withdrawn from consideration as being directed to a nonelected invention. Claim 31 has been indicated to contain allowable subject matter. The only pending rejection of claim 13 has -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007