The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 23
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte GUNTHER WORF, MICHAEL SAALMANN,
SVEIN SUNDE and TOM THORMODSEN
Appeal No. 2002-2277
Application No. 09/297,527
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, PAK and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-8,
10, 11 and 15. Claims 9, 12 and 13, the other claims remaining
in the present application, have been objected to by the examiner
as being dependent on the rejected claims. Claim 1 is
illustrative:1
1 Claim 1 is incorrectly reproduced in appellants' brief.
Claim 1 of record appears in appellants' Amendment C, filed
September 8, 2000 (Paper No. 8).
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