The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 28 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte JEAN-PAUL RODUIT and GEORGES KALBERMATTEN _____________ Appeal No. 2001-1932 Application No. 08/829,512 ______________ HEARD: November 7, 2002 _______________ Before LIEBERMAN, DELMENDO and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges. POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s refusal to allow claims 2-19, which are all of the claims remaining in the application. Claims 18 and 19 are representative of the subject matter on appeal. A copy of these claims is appended to this decision. The references relied upon by the examiner are: Suto et al. (Suto) 5,142,057 Aug. 25, 1992 Takeuchi et al., “Palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of N-Heteroaromatic chloride”, Journal of Molecular catalysis, vol. 66, pgs. 277-288 (1991). (Takeuchi)Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007