The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 24 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte ANDREW JOHN WARD and DAVID CHARLES HURST ____________ Appeal No. 2002-0346 Application No. 08/952,673 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges. ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3, 9- 13 and 20. Claims 7 and 19 have been allowed and claims 4-6, 8 and 14-18 have been indicated as containing allowable subject matter but objected to for depending from a rejected claim (Paper No. 16, page 4). We REVERSE.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007