The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte Francis L. Garing __________ Appeal No. 2004-23431 Application No. 09/772,520 __________ ON BRIEF2 __________ Before SCHEINER, ADAMS and GREEN, Administrative Patent Judges. ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 3, 6, 11, 14-20 and 24-31. The examiner has indicated that claims 1, 2, 5, 7-10, 12, 13 and 21-23 are allowable. Claim 4 is cancelled. 1 This appeal is substantially similar to Appeal No. 2004-1503, Application No. 09/606,808; Appeal No. 2004-1506, Application No. 09/788,334; Appeal No. 2004-1968, Application No. 10/00,0311; Appeal No. 2004-2317, Application No. 09/771,938; and Appeal No. 2005-0396, Application No. 10/077,589, which all share the same assignee, Monsanto Company, the parent of wholly-owned subsidiary DeKalb Genetics Corporation. Accordingly we have considered these appeals together. 2 We note that appellant waived his request for Oral Hearing. See Paper received December 3, 2004.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007