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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte JAMES MORGAN MURPHY
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Appeal No. 2001-1570
Application No. 09/081,3931
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ON BRIEF2
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Before RUGGIERO, BLANKENSHIP 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 1-8, 10-12, 14-17 and 21-30. Claims 9 and 13
have been canceled and claims 18-20 are withdrawn from
consideration as being drawn to a non-elected invention.
We affirm-in-part.
1 Application for patent filed May 18, 1998, which claims the filing
priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Provisional Application No.
60/051,694, filed July 3, 1997.
2 The Oral Hearing set for September 18, 2002 was waived by Appellant
in a communication, received by facsimile, on July 22, 2002.
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