The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte THOMAS A. NOLTING, RICHARD LAPEARL, SHEILA NOONAN, KAREN DION and RAYMOND X. LEUNG _____________ Appeal No. 2002-1687 Application No. 09/188,712 ______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before FLEMING, DIXON and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 through 18 and 20 through 31. Claim 19 stands objected to due to its dependency from rejected claim 18. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007