Ex Parte RUDZEWITZ et al - Page 1



              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                        not binding precedent of the Board                          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. 23                  
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                    
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                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
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                              Ex parte STEPHAN RUDZEWITZ                            
                                  and FRANK SCHUMANN                                
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                                  Appeal No. 2001-0350                              
                             Application 09/243,835                                 
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                             ON BRIEF                                               
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         Before THOMAS, KRASS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.             
         THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                                                                   
                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                
              Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiner's             
         final rejection of claims 2 and 3, the examiner having indicated           
         the allowability of claims 4-12 and 18 and appellants having               
         canceled claims 1 and 13 through 17.                                       
              Representative claim 2 is reproduced below:                           
              2.  A method for in-register pre-positioning a printing               
         plate in a plate feeding device, wherein the printing plate is             
         pre-positioned by a positioning device of the plate feeding                

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