The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte WARNER NITSCHKE, OTTO KARL, JOACHIM BAUER, MICHAEL BISCHOFF, GUNTER FENDT, JOHANNES RINKENS, STEFAN SCHAFFER and RICHARD BAUR __________ Appeal No. 2003-1747 Application 09/647,296 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before COHEN, FRANKFORT, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 8 through 17, all of the claims remaining in this application. On page 6 of the answer, the examiner indicates that claims 13 through 15 and 17 are now “objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007