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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 21
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MARK PENLERICK and ROBERT RAGER
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Appeal No. 2003-0881
Application No. 09/658,561
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.
NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection (Paper No. 6,
mailed March 26, 2002) of claims 1 to 21 and 23 to 26, which are all of the claims
pending in this application. In the brief (Paper No. 13, filed September 19, 2002), the
appellants withdrew claims 16 and 23 from consideration in the appeal. Accordingly,
the appeal with respect to claims 16 and 23 is dismissed. Claims 1 to 15, 17 to 21 and
24 to 26 remain on appeal.
We REVERSE.
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