The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 27 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte MACK (NMI) ROSE __________ Appeal No. 2004-1046 Application No. 09/354,203 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before PAK, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges. DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 (2003) from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1 through 3 and 7 through 9 in the above-identified application. (Non-final Office action mailed Mar. 23, 2001, paper 12.) Claims 4 through 6 and 10, the only other pending claims, have been allowed. (Id.) The subject matter on appeal relates to a “drywall benchPage: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007