The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 12
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte BRUNO ZUMBUHL
Appeal No. 2004-1230
Application No. 09/925,232
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, PAK and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 7-9,
all the claims remaining in the present application.1 Claim 7 is
illustrative:
7. In a tamper-indicating threaded closure, including a
threaded cap and a tamper-indicating ring which splits at at
least one point on the periphery thereof as said closure is
removed from the container, said ring being interconnected to
1 Although appellant withdrew claims 1-6 and 10 in the
amendment filed on March 4, 2003 (Paper No. 6), the claims have
not been physically cancelled.
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