Ex Parte DENK et al - Page 1




        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        written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 40          

                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
                                    __________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    __________                                      
                        Ex parte VIKTOR DENK and ULRICH GANS                        
                                    __________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2002-0952                                
                             Application No. 08/929,108                             
                                    ___________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                    ___________                                     
         Before PAK, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative                 
         Patent Judges.                                                             
         DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134                 
         (2002) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 36 through            
         39, 41, 42, 44, and 45, which are all of the claims pending in             
         the above-identified application.                                          
              The subject matter on appeal relates to “a method for                 
         raising the filtrate throughput in a crossflow membrane filter             
         in a filter module of a filtration plant during the filtration             








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