The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 16 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TIMOTHY K. SEARFOSS ____________ Appeal No. 2004-0729 Application No. 09/957,202 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before ABRAMS, MCQUADE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's rejection of claims 1, 2, 9 and 10. Claims 4-8 stand objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim but are otherwise indicated as allowable and claims 11-20 stand allowed. No other claims are pending in this application. We AFFIRM. BACKGROUNDPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007