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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JORMA LAAPOTTI
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Appeal No. 1999-1398
Application No. 08/559,496
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, FRANKFORT, and STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.
ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-35 and
39-51, which are all of the claims pending in this application.1
We AFFIRM-IN-PART.
1We note that both the final rejection (Paper No. 13) and the Notice of Appeal
(Paper No. 14) erroneously indicate that they apply to claims 1-51. However, claims 36-38
had been canceled prior to that point (see Paper No. 7).
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