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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 SETH D. ROSE, SCOTT R. LEFLER,
STEVEN R. OTTERSBERG, ANN Y. KIM,
KARL J. OKOLOTOWICZ, and ROSEMARIE F. HARTMAN
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Appeal No. 2005-0978
Application No. 09/983,232
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HEARD: July 12, 2005
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Before MILLS, GRIMES, and GREEN Administrative Patent Judges.
MILLS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. §134 from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 51-56, which are all of the claims on appeal in this application.
Claims 57-59 have been indicated to contain allowable subject matter by the examiner.
Claims 51 and 54 are illustrative of the claims on appeal and appear in the
attached appendix to the Brief.
The prior art references cited by the examiner are:
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