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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MICHEL POTIER and PHILIPPE LE GAUYER
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Appeal No. 2001-2354
Application No. 09/186,687
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 17 (Paper No. 10). Subsequent to the final rejection
(Paper No. 11), claim 1 was amended, claim 5 canceled, and new
claim 18 introduced. Thus, we have before us on appeal claims 1
through 4, and 6 through 18. These claims constitute all of the
claims remaining in the application.
Appellants’ invention pertains to a heat exchange device, to
a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger, and to a heat
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