Ex Parte Graham et al - Page 1




            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 20        
                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                     
                                     ____________                                   
                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                        
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                 
                                     ____________                                   
              Ex parte WILLIAM DAVID GRAHAM and JONATHAN MICHAEL VERHOFF            
                                     ____________                                   
                                 Appeal No. 2004-2038                               
                              Application No. 09/681,778                            
                                     ____________                                   
                                       ON BRIEF                                     
                                     ____________                                   
         Before COHEN, STAAB, and McQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges.            
         COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        



                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                


              This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1                
         through 6 and 15. Claim 7 has been canceled.  Claims 8 through 14          
         and 16 through 30, the only other claims in the application,               
         stand withdrawn from consideration by the examiner as being based          
         upon a non-elected species of the invention; 37 CFR § 1.142(b).            






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