Ex Parte Springhorn 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               written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.     



                      UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                  Ex parte CARSTEN SPRINGHORN and BERNHARD BLOEMER                    
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                                Appeal No. 2005-0086                                  
                             Application No. 09/969,265                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                   _______________                                    
          Before CAROFF, WALTZ, and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.              
          CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on appeal from the examiner’s final                 
          rejection of claims 1-16, all the claims now pending in                     
          appellants’ involved application.                                           
               The appealed claims are directed to a sensor device and                
          method for determining the concentration of at least one gaseous            
          component in a gas mixture, e.g., nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the              
          exhaust gas of internal combustion engines.                                 






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