The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication in a law journal and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 41 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES Ex parte ULRICH RITTNER and HEINER SCHMIDT Appeal No. 2000-1984 Application No. 08/565,775 ON BRIEF Before KRASS, DIXON and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. KRASS, Administrative Patent Judge. ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING Appellants request that we reconsider that part of our decision of June 18, 2002 wherein we sustained the rejection of claims 1-16 and 21-23 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph, and the rejection of claims 1-3 and 5-10 under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) over Schweizerhof. -1-Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007