The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte LOTFI BENMOHAMED, SUBRAHMANYAM DRAVIDA, PARAMASIVIAH HARSHAVARDHANA, WING CHEONG LAU and AJAY KUMAR MITTAL __________ Appeal No. 2002-2288 Application No. 09/198,727 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before LEE, MOORE, and POTEATE, Administrative Patent Judges. MOORE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1-42, which are all of the pending claims. The appellants have indicated (Brief, page 3) that, for the purposes of this appeal, the claims will stand or fall together. Consistent with this indication, Appellant has made no separate arguments with respect to the remaining claims. Accordingly, all the claims will stand or fall together, and we will select claim XX, the broadest independent claim as representative of all of thePage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007