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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte FRANK J. CATALANO
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Appeal No. 2003-0067
Application No. 09/713,480
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, STAAB, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 10-15, all the
claims currently pending in the application.
Appellant’s invention pertains to a fishhook “which assumes and maintains an inverted
position in the water so as to minimize the possibility of hangups during retrieval” (specification,
page 1). A further understanding of the invention can be derived from a reading of exemplary
claims 10, 11 and 15, the three independent claims in the application, which are reproduced on
pages 10-11 of appellant’s brief.
The references relied upon by the examiner as evidence of obviousness are:
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