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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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 EDMUND HULIN JAMES III
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Appeal No. 2001-2198
Application 09/378,802
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ON BRIEF
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Before PATE, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 and 9.
Claims 3 through 8 and 10 through 15 stand allowed. Claim 2 has
been canceled. These are all the claims in the application.
The claimed invention is directed to a method and apparatus
for increasing the waste ink storage area in an inkjet printer.
A rotary spreader mechanism is moved in response to the printhead
to disperse waste ink in a waste ink accumulation region.
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