Ex Parte BLOM et al - Page 1




          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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
                               Ex parte ERIC D. BLOM,                                 
                                W. GREGORY CHERNOFF                                   
                                and DANIEL W. KARAKLA                                 
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2002-2187                                  
                               Application 09/149,359                                 
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      
          Before STAAB, MCQUADE, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent                  
          Judges.                                                                     
          MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       

                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Eric D. Blom et al. originally took this appeal from the               
          final rejection (Paper No. 13) of claims 7 through 13 and 17                
          through 19, all of the claims pending in the application.  As the           
          examiner has since withdrawn all rejections of claims 10 through            
          13, the appeal as to these claims is hereby dismissed, leaving              
          for review the standing rejections of claims 7 through 9 and 17             
          through 19.  Claims 11 through 13 stand allowed and claim 10                
          stands objected to as depending from a rejected base claim.                 







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