The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte SEAN P. HANSON __________ Appeal No. 1999-2774 Application 08/794,337 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, and FRANKFORT and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge. ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING This is in response to appellant’s request for rehearing of our decision mailed September 28, 2000, wherein we affirmed the examiner's rejection of claims 1 through 6, 10 through 13, 22 and 23 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over Kee in view of Law or Utterberg, and reversed the examiner’s 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007