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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte TRACY D. HARMER and CURTIS H. BRUNER
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Appeal No. 2002-0313
Application No. 09/302,1061
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ON BRIEF2
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Before HAIRSTON, BARRETT 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 1-4, which are all of the claims pending in
this application.
We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Appellants’ invention relates to a housing for a hard disk
drive to be connected to a host computer. According to
Appellants, the conventional peripheral component interface (PCI)
1 Application for patent filed April 29, 1999.
2 A request for oral hearing was waived in a communication filed March
18, 2003.
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