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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte MICHAEL ROBERT LEMELIN, DALE HIETT JACKSON,
MARK BERNARD DUMAIS and JOHN SHERIDAN RICHARDS
Appeal No. 2004-0104
Application No. 09/052,472
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WARREN and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-11
and 13-15. Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A printing unit for a web-fed rotary printing press for
alternatively printing only a first web in a perfecting mode and
for printing the first web and a second web in a non-perfecting
mode, wherein the first and second webs travel through the
printing unit from an upstream end to a downstream end thereof,
the printing unit comprising:
-1-
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