Ex Parte BRUCK 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                    and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18              

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                        
                                  ________________                                    
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                  ________________                                    
                         Ex parte DIETER BRUCK and UDO WOLF                           
                                  ________________                                    
                                Appeal No. 2002-0984                                  
                               Application 09/246,1791                                
                                  ________________                                    
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                  ________________                                    
          Before METZ, GARRIS and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          METZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                          

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's            
          refusal to allow claims 6 through 10, all the claims remaining in           
          this application..                                                          
                                    THE INVENTION                                     
               The appealed subject matter is directed to a process for the           
          production or modification of polymeric products by monitoring a            
          reaction designed to produce or modify a polymeric product using            
          infrared attenuated total reflection ( IR-ATR) probes to measure            


          1  Application for patent filed February 4, 1999.                           
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