Ex parte MULLER 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                   and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 34           
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                     Ex parte MANFRED MULLER, WERNER REICHELT,                        
                         PETER FRANK and CHRISTOPHER RHOADES                          
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                                Appeal No. 2001-2021                                  
                             Application No. 09/206,393                               
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                              HEARD: February 19, 2002                                
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          Before STAAB, McQUADE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.               
          McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Manfred Muller et al. appeal from the final rejection of               
          claims 28 through 38, all of the claims pending in the                      
          application.                                                                
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The invention relates to “a control element arrangement                
          for controlling the longitudinal and/or the lateral movement                
          of a motor vehicle” (specification, page 1).  Representative                
          claim 28 reads as follows:                                                  






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