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today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHRISTOPHER P. BERTELLOTTI,
COLIN DRUMMOND, MARK HECKLER,
JOSEPH ROGARI and DON URIG
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Appeal No. 2001-0774
Application 09/087,521
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, OWENS and MOORE, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal and Opinion
The record shows that in the final rejection of December 3, 1999 (Paper No. 8), the
examiner set forth twelve (12) grounds of rejection which in sum encompassed all of appealed
claims 1 through 28, which are all of the claims in the application.1 Appellants acknowledged all
of the grounds of rejection in the brief (pages 2-3), identified a dispositive issue in each of the
grounds of rejection, and based thereon, submitted four sets of appealed claims based on
common dispositive issues (id., pages 4-6). The examiner selected appealed claims 1, 2, 16 and
25 as respectively representative of appellants’ four claim groupings, and advanced one ground
of rejection on appeal for each group of appealed claims on which to decide this appeal (answer,
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