The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte G. GARY GOCHANOUR __________ Appeal No. 2002-1123 Application No. 09/110,987 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before TIMM, 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 (2003) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, and 8 (final Office action mailed Mar. 30, 2001, paper 13) in the above-identified application. Claims 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 17, which are the only other pending claims, are either objected to as being dependent on a rejected base claim (claimsPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007