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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JOHN C. PARKS, DAVID H. KNOEBEL
LAWRENCE M. JENKINS, GEORGE H. RANSFORD
GARY L. BOWMAN JR. and
SAADAT HUSSAIN
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Appeal No. 2005-0407
Application No. 09/888,246
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, KRATZ, and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent
Judges.
OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This appeal is from a rejection of claims 1, 2 and 4.
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a wet cake1 that comprises a solid
brominated diphenylethane product and has an occluded free
1 The appellants disclose that “[t]he undried solids
recovered from the slurry are referred to herein by the term ‘wet
cake’. This term is not meant to be restricted by any particular
manner of solids recovery and/or by ancillary treatments of the
slurry or recovered solids, e.g., neutralization, washing and the
like” (specification, page 13, paragraph 0044).
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