The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte TIMOTHY M. SIVAVEC
and
ANGELO ANTHONY BRACCO
Appeal No. 2005-0663
Application No. 09/682,142
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, WARREN and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-35
and 44-66. Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A method, comprising:
conducting a permeable-reactive barrier (PRB) treatment
of a contaminated aqueous medium; and
in-well monitoring by sensing effectiveness of the PRB
treatment to generate a signal representing a characteristic of
the sensed effectiveness; and
in-well transmitting the signal by a wireless
communication to a remote collector or monitor.
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