Ex Parte Fitzgerald et al - Page 1




               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               and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16           


                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                   Ex parte ARTHUR C. FITZGERALD, JOHN F. COUGHLAN                    
                                 and JACK B. GOLDMAN                                  
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2004-0348                                  
                             Application No. 09/901,220                               
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     
          Before KIMLIN, DELMENDO and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent              
          Judges.                                                                     
          KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 54-56             
          and 59-65.  Claims 54 and 65 are illustrative:                              
          54. A method of manufacturing document storage containers for               
          storing documents, comprising the steps:                                    
               die cutting a blank document container from document                   
          container stock;                                                            
               embedding a radio frequency identification tag in the                  
          document container stock; and                                               

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