Ex Parte KLING et al - Page 1




               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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 22           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                    Ex parte SUSAN MARIE KLING, RENE KRUIDENIER,                      
                         ERIC K.C. LEE and MARTIN F. DEBNEY                           
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2003-0606                                  
                             Application No. 09/281,837                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before KIMLIN, PAWLIKOWSKI and GARRIS, Administrative Patent                
          Judges.                                                                     
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-9,              
          all the claims remaining in the present application.  Claim 1 is            
          illustrative:                                                               
               1.  A process for making a thermoplastic film by the blown             
          film extrusion process which comprises extruding a molten                   
          thermoplastic polymer through a tubular die to form a tube of               
          molten polymer, contacting the inner surface of the tube of                 

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