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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte LINDA G. CIMA and MICHAEL J. CIMA
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Appeal No. 1998-2813
Application No. 08/463,203
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HEARD: September 12, 2000
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Before CALVERT, FRANKFORT, and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative
Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 19 through 25 and 29 through 36. Claim 37
stands allowed. Claims 26 through 28, the only other claims
remaining in the application, have been indicated by the examiner
as containing allowable subject matter, but stand objected to
until they are rewritten in independent form including all the
limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. Claims
1 through 18 have been canceled.
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