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is not binding precedent of the Board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. 26
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GENE W. BROWN
and JEFFREY E.D. ROGERS
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Appeal No. 2001-2072
Application No. 08/910,885
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, DELMENDO, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims
1-4 and 7-9. Claim 4 has been objected to but has been indicated
as being allowable by the examiner on page 3 of the answer.
Claims 5, 6, and 10-26 have been withdrawn from consideration as
being directed to non-elected species. (answer, page 2).
Claim 1 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal, and
is set forth below, with the bolded text provided for emphasis:
1. A disposable filter cartridge for mounting in a filter
housing, the filter housing including a non-planar axially
extending seating surface following a ring-shaped path having no
structural metal parts and comprising in combination:
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