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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte HOWARD CERI, MERLE E. OLSON,
DONALD R. READ, and ANDRE G. BURET
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Appeal No. 2001-1173
Application No. 08/614,593
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ON BRIEF
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Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, 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 1-14, and 20-32, which are all the claims
pending in the application.
Claim 20 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced
below:
20. A method of growing and analyzing a biofilm, the method
comprising the steps of:
incubating biofilm forming organisms on plural biofilm
adherent sites arranged in plural rows, with plural biofilm adherent
sites in each row, while providing a flow of a liquid growth medium
across the plural biofilm adherent sites, in which the plural biofilm
adherent sites share the liquid growth medium, to therby create a
uniform biofilm at each of the plural biofilm adherent sites; and
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