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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MURRY L. NEAL and ALLAN D. BAIN
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Appeal No. 2003-1796
Application No. 09/513,563
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, McQUADE, 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. 13,
mailed August 7, 2001) of claims 1, 5 to 10, 16 and 23 to 28. Claims 11 to 15, the only
other claims pending in this application, have been withdrawn from consideration.
We AFFIRM-IN-PART, however, for reasons explained infra, we have
denominated our affirmance of the rejection of claim 8 a new ground of rejection under
37 CFR § 1.196(b).
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