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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte B. MARK HIRST
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Appeal No. 2000-0946
Application No. 08/704,217
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ON BRIEF
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Before ABRAMS, STAAB and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-4.
Claims 6-11 stand allowed and claim 5 stands objected to as depending from a rejected
claim. No other claim is pending in this application.
BACKGROUND
The appellant’s invention relates to power control systems and, more particularly,
to a method and apparatus for determining the source voltage supplied to
a resistive heating element (specification, page 1). Representative claim 1 is
reproduced infra in the opinion section of this decision.
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