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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte LEO E. MANZER, V. N. MALLIKARJUNA RAO
and
STEVEN H. SWEARINGEN
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Appeal No. 1997-1821
Application No. 08/460,023
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, WALTZ, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal from the primary examiner’s
final rejection of claims 1 through 7, 10 and 13 through 20, which
are all of the claims remaining in this application (see the Brief,
page 2). In the Answer, the examiner states that claims 13-15, 19
and 20 are allowed while claims 2 and 10 are objected to as being
dependent on a rejected base claim, but these claims would be
allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the
limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims (Answer,
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