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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 31
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ALAN M. CAMIENER and GERALD W. CAMIENER
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Appeal No. 1999-0060
Application No. 08/567,771
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HEARD: April 15, 2003
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Before OWENS, KRATZ, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from a nonfinal rejection of claims 1-5.1
Claims 6-9 and 11 have been indicated allowable. Claims 18-22,
which are all of the other claims remaining in the application,
stand withdrawn from consideration by the examiner as being
directed toward a nonelected invention.
1 In an appeal in which claims have been at least twice rejected, the
board has jurisdiction as discussed in Ex parte Lemoine, 46 USPQ2d 1432 (Bd.
Pat. App. & Int. 1995).
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