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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 18
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte NIELS S. MOSSBECK and THOMAS J. WELLS
Appeal No. 2004-1317
Application No. 10/143,377
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WARREN and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 12-15
and 23-25. Claims 1-11 and 16-22, the other claims remaining in
the present application, have been allowed by the examiner.
Claim 12 is illustrative:
12. A method of packaging a plurality of spring units, each
spring unit comprising a plurality of coil springs, each of said
coil springs having a top turn and a bottom turn, said top turns
of said coil springs defining a generally planar first surface
and said bottom turns of said coil springs defining a generally
planar second surface, said method comprising the steps of:
-1-
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