The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board Paper No. 23 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte STEPHAN RUDZEWITZ and FRANK SCHUMANN ______________ Appeal No. 2001-0350 Application 09/243,835 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ 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 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007