The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte SURESH DESAI and JOHN F. HESSEL __________ Appeal No. 2001-1154 Application No. 08/482,579 __________ ON BRIEF1 __________ Before WINTERS, ADAMS and GREEN, Administrative Patent Judges. ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1, 3-11, 13-18 and 20-25, which are all the claims pending in the application. Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced below: 1. An iodine complex concentrate comprising : (a) from about 0.5 to about 30% by weight of iodine; 1 Appellants waived their request for oral hearing. Accordingly, we considered this appeal on Brief.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007