The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte RALPH KAULBACH, FRIEDRICH KLOOS, GERNOT LOHR, and PETER STAMPRECH, Deceased ____________ Appeal No. 2002-0184 Application No. 09/058,537 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before GARRIS, LIEBERMAN, and TIMM , Administrative Patent Judges. LIEBERMAN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. §134 from the decision of the examiner refusing to allow claims 1 through 8 and 16 through 20 which are all the claims pending in this application other than claims 9 through 14 which stand withdrawn from consideration as directed to a non-elected invention.1 1Claim 15 has been cancelled.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007