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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JEFF RICHARDSON, JON A. PETTY and E. TAL EHLERS
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Appeal No. 2005-0469
Application No. 10/093,994
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ON BRIEF
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Before MCQUADE, NASE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-5 and
20. Claims 6-12, 15, 17 and 18, the only other claims pending in this application, stand
allowed.
BACKGROUND
The appellants’ invention relates to a zero-sum tiling game comprising a plurality
of “domino-like” tiles or game pieces, each having two substantially equally sized
halves, with each half being provided with zero, one, two or three indicia. The indicia
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