Ex Parte PARKER et al - Page 1




         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         not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the            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. 19                
                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                        BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
                                    __________                                      
                           Ex parte JONATHAN D. PARKER,                             
                        AARON J. PEPER and BRIAN D. MACLEOD                         
                                    __________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2003-0214                                
                               Application 09/441,490                               
                                    ___________                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                      
                                    ___________                                     
         Before COHEN, FRANKFORT, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent                
         Judges.                                                                    
         MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                      

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
              Jonathan D. Parker et al. appeal from the final rejection             
         (Paper No. 10) of claims 1 and 3 through 31, all of the claims             
         pending in the application.                                                
                                   THE INVENTION                                    
              The invention relates to “a bulk palletizer with a                    
         programmable, cantilevered arm” (specification, page 1).                   
         Representative claim 1 reads as follows:1                                  

              1 The following terms in the appealed claims lack a proper            
         antecedent basis and are deserving of correction in the event of           
         further prosecution before the examiner: “the gate” and “the               
         crowders” in claim 9; “the bulk product feeder” and “the tier              




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