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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte FRANK B. MANNING
and WILLIAM HUME VANCE
Appeal No. 2001-2270
Application 09/235,5291
ON BRIEF
Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent
Judges.
BARRETT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134(a) from
the final rejection of claims 1-6 and 9-12. Claims 7 and 8 are
objected to as being dependent upon rejected base claims.
Claims 13-18 are allowed.
1 Application for patent filed January 22, 1999, entitled
"Parallel-Connected Dialing Signal Transmission Inhibiting Device
for Data Transfer Over a Telephone Link," which is a continuation
of Application 08/542,661, filed October 13, 1995, now U.S.
patent 5,898,756, issued April 27, 1999.
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