Ex Parte Bjelopavlic 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          and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                       
                                    ____________                                      
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                    ____________                                      
                      Ex parte MICK BJELOPAVLIC, ALEXIS GRABBE,                       
                          MICHELE HALER and TRACY M. RAGAN                            
                                    ____________                                      
                                Appeal No. 2005-1108                                  
                             Application No. 10/442,900                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before MCQUADE, NASE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.                
          MCQUADE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                       
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               Mick Bjelopavlic et al. appeal from the final rejection                
          (mailed August 26, 2004) of claims 1 through 8, 10 through 12 and           
          20 through 25.  Claims 13 through 19 stand allowed, and claim 9,            
          the only other claim pending in the application, stands objected            
          to as depending from a rejected base claim.                                 
                                   THE INVENTION                                      
               The invention relates to “wafer carriers for retaining                 
          semiconductor wafers during processing operations”                          





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