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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 46
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ANDY D.C. CHAN, JOSEPH S. FOOS,
JAMES E. RASMUSSEN, RICHARD L. SCHULKIND
and JOHN A. ZALENSKI
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Appeal No. 2001-0246
Application No. 08/921,1031
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, KRASS and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final
rejection of claims 47 and 49. Claims 22-25, 27-46, 48 and 51-
53 have been canceled and claim 50 has been allowed.2
We affirm.
1 Application for patent filed August 29, 1997, which is a continuation-
in-part of the Application No. 08/552,833, filed November 3, 1995, now
abandoned.
2 The rejection of claim 50 under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being
unpatentable over Europe and Hofmeier in view of the admitted prior art is
withdrawn by the Examiner (answer, page 2).
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