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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DAVID W. DAUGHERTY, JR.
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Appeal No. 2002-1822
Application No. 09/197,164
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent
Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 31, all of the claims pending in
this application.
Appellant's invention relates, in general, to a railway
coupling device and, more particularly, to connection assemblies
for use in articulated coupling arrangements and slackless
drawbar assemblies which are used in the railway industry to
couple together the adjacently disposed ends of a pair of railway
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