The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 15 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte YU-LIANG LIN and CHIH-I PENG __________ Appeal No. 2004-1231 Application 09/481,224 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before JERRY SMITH, FLEMING, and GROSS, Administrative Patent Judges. FLEMING, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-20. INVENTION Appellants’ invention relates to an apparatus and a method for off-line pre-conditioning a conditioning disc. See Appellants’ specification, page 12, lines 8 and 9. Fig. 3 shows 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007