The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MAURICE S. BROOKHART, LYNDA KAYE JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER MOORE KILLIAN, SAMUEL DAVID ARTHUR, JERALD FELDMAN, ELIZABETH FORRESTER MCCORD, STEPHAN JAMES MCLAIN, KRISTINA ANN KREUTZER, ALISON MARGARET ANNE BENNETT, EDWARD BRYAN COUGHLIN, STEVEN DALE ITTEL, ANJU PARTHASARATHY, and DANIEL JOSEPH TEMPEL __________ Appeal No. 2004-1829 Application No. 09/887,273 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before PAK, KRATZ, and DELMENDO, 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 final rejection of claims 563 through 574, which are all of the claims pending in the above-identified application. The subject matter on appeal relates to a process for the production of a polyolefin having at least 50 branches per 1000Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007