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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JORN LEIBER, BERND LUHMANN, THOMAS RAADTS, RALF
SCHLIEPHACKE, PETER KUBASCH, JAN CHAL, HANSJURGEN LINDE,
UWE NEUMANN, and HANS HAZES
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Appeal No. 2002-2278
Application No. 08/976,820
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HEARD: MARCH 5, 2003
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Before PAK, LORIN, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative Patent
Judges.
PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST ON REHEARING
Appellants request a rehearing of the Board’s decision
entered March 26, 2003, wherein we affirmed the examiner’s
decision rejecting claims 20 through 31 under 35 U.S.C. § 103.
Appellants argue that substantial evidence does not support
our finding that one of ordinary skill in the art can infer from
the teachings of Lühmann that “grip tabs can be provided to each
and every side or some of the sides of a given geometrically
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