Ex Parte CHONIER et al - Page 1




                            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                                    for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 45             
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                               
                                                     ____________                                                      
                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                 
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                      
                                                     ____________                                                      
                               Ex parte FREDERIC CHONIER, FREDERIC QUILLARD,                                           
                                 JEAN-LOUIS CHEVALIER and MICHEL THEVENET                                              
                                                     ____________                                                      
                                                  Appeal No. 04-0686                                                   
                                              Application No. 09/015,234                                               
                                                     ____________                                                      
                                                 HEARD: May 4, 2004                                                    
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             Before ABRAMS, STAAB, and NASE, Administrative Patent Judges.                                             
             ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      


                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                     


                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 2 and               
             4-7.  Claims 3 and 8 have been withdrawn by the examiner as being directed to a non-                      
             elected invention.                                                                                        


                     We REVERSE.                                                                                       










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