Ex Parte Hoffmann 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          not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the             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.                 

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                     __________                                       
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                     __________                                       
              Ex parte KURT HOFFMAN, HEINZ HERBST and RUDOLF PFAENDNER                
                                     __________                                       
                                Appeal No. 2004-0824                                  
                               Application 09/879,422                                 
                                     ___________                                      
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                     ___________                                      

          Before OWENS, DELMENDO and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent               
          Judges.                                                                     
          OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This appeal is from a rejection of claims 21-23 and 26-30.             
          Claims 24 and 25, which are all of the other claims pending in              
          the application, stand withdrawn from consideration by the                  
          examiner as being directed toward a nonelected invention.                   





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