Ex Parte Laukhuf et al - Page 1




                             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                                     for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 GREGG E. LAUKHUF and MARK E. RAMSEY                                              
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                                                  Appeal No. 2005-0844                                                    
                                                Application No. 10/397,807                                                
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                                                        ON BRIEF                                                          
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              Before COHEN , FRANKFORT, and DIXON, Administrative Patent Judges.                                          
              FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                     



                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                       
                     This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1                         
              through 19, all of the claims pending in this application.                                                  


                     Appellants’ invention relates to a power and communications assembly or                              
              module (16) mountable on a worksurface (14), a work center formed by mounting the                           
              power and communications apparatus on a worksurface (e.g., Fig. 1), and a method of                         
              expanding a bi-directional signal using a power and communications assembly.  A copy                        








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