Ex Parte Prakah-Asante 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                               for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17          

                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                       
                                            ____________                                              

                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                         
                                       AND INTERFERENCES                                              
                                             ____________                                             
                     Ex parte Kwaku O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, MANOHARPRASAD K. RAO                            
                                    and GARY STEVEN STRUMOLO                                          
                                             ____________                                             
                                          Appeal No. 2004-2269                                        
                                        Application No. 10/076,405                                    
                                             ____________                                             
                                               ON BRIEF                                               
                                             ____________                                             
            Before FRANKFORT, NASE, and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                           
            NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                        



                                         DECISION ON APPEAL                                           
                  This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 to 6,  
            11, 12 and 14 to 20.1  Claims 7 to 10 and 13, which are the only other claims pending in  
            this application, have been objected to as depending from a non-allowed claim.            


                  We REVERSE.                                                                         

                  1 While the examiner has approved entry of the amendment after final rejection (filed December
            12, 2003), we note that this amendment has not been clerically entered.                   




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