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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte GLEN D. WILK,
ROBERT M. WALLACE,
JOHN M. ANTHONY
and PAUL MCINTYRE
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Appeal No. 2004-0652
Application 09/396,642
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent
Judges.
MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
Glen D. Wilk et al. originally took this appeal from the
final rejection (Paper No. 7) of claims 1 through 12. Upon
consideration of the appellants’ main brief (Paper No. 9), the
examiner issued an Office action (Paper No. 10) reopening
prosecution and entering superseding rejections of the claims.
Pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.193(b)(2)(ii), the appellants filed a
supplemental brief (Paper No. 11) and requested that the appeal
be reinstated. Implicitly denying this request, the examiner
issued another Office action (Paper No. 12) entering further
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