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not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MICHAEL T. TRESE
and
GEORGE A. WILLIAMS
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Appeal No. 2004-2249
Application No. 09/820,159
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ON BRIEF
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Before WALTZ, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
(2004) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1, 2, 5,
and 6 in the above-identified application. Claims 3 and 4, the
only other pending claims, stand “objected to as being dependent
upon a rejected base claim” but indicated as “allowable if
rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations
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