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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 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 ANANTHA N. DESIKAN and GEORGE E. WHITWELL
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Appeal No. 2004-0599
Application No. 09/843,554
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, WALTZ, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the primary examiner’s
final rejection of claims 18 and 19, which are the only claims
pending in this application.1 We have jurisdiction pursuant to
35 U.S.C. § 134.
1Appellants submitted an amendment subsequent to the final
rejection which cancelled claims 10-16 and this amendment has
been entered by the examiner (see the amendment dated Mar. 27,
2003, Paper No. 13, entered as per the Advisory Action dated
April 11, 2003, Paper No.14; see the Answer, page 2, ¶(4)). We
note that the amendment of Paper No. 11 was incorrectly entered.
This error should be corrected upon return of this application to
the examiner. For purposes of this appeal, we consider claim 18
as presented in the amendment of Paper No. 7.
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