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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11
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 L. BEIGEL, NATHANIEL POLISH,
STEVEN R. FRANK and ROBERT E. MALM
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Appeal No. 2005-0171
Application No. 10/064,380
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ON BRIEF
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Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT, and RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent
Judges.
RUGGIERO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal from the Examiner’s rejection
of claims 1-17, 20-25, 32, 36-45, 47-68, and 70-80.
The disclosed invention relates to an electronic
identification system in which the identifying agency and the
object to be identified cooperate in the identification process.
More particularly, an interrogator (reader) is inductively coupled
to a transponder (tag) in which the reader is associated with the
identifying agency and the tag is associated with the object to be
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