The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte HANS-UWE BAUMANN, DIETER SEMMEL and VASIL BARBUNOPULOS ____________ Appeal No. 2004-2060 Application No. 09/891,271 ____________ HEARD: December 9, 2004 ____________ Before FRANKFORT, STAAB, and MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judges. FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 3 and 6 through 11. Claims 4 and 5, the only other claims pending in the application, stand objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim and have been indicated to be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007