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precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 19
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte ANDREW NOESTHEDEN
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Appeal No. 2004-0481
Application 09/783,260
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, OWENS and DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal and Opinion
We have carefully considered the record in this appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134, including
the opposing views of the examiner, in the answer, and appellant, in the brief, and based on our
review, find that we cannot sustain either of the grounds of rejections of appealed claims 1, 6 and
7,1 all of the claims in the application, under 35 U.S.C. § 103(a) as being unpatentable over
Strong in view of Flores et al. (Flores) and Lucore, II (Lucore), and over Mercier et al. (Mercier)
in view of Flores and Lucore.2
We refer to the examiner’s answer and to appellant’s brief for a complete exposition of
the respective positions advanced by the examiner and appellant.
1 See the appendix to the brief.
2 Answer, pages 3-6.
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