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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte WILLIAM POSSIDENTO
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Appeal No. 2005-1379
Application 09/734,601
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, KRATZ and PAWLIKOWSKI, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally
rejecting claims 5 through 8, all of the claims in the application.
Claim 5 illustrates appellant’s invention of a two part teaching puzzle apparatus and is
representative of the claims on appeal:
5. A two part teaching puzzle apparatus based upon the periodic chart of chemical
elements that provides an array of rows and columns of said chemical elements; where the
location of each element in the array is based upon its chemical properties, the apparatus
comprising: a first part puzzle board having a top edge, a bottom edge and two side edges, said
edges having an outline shape reflective of said periodic chart, a second part comprising a
plurality of cubic shaped pieces, each piece having six faces, each of said pieces corresponding
to a chemical element in the periodic table and having information on at least one of said faces of
said cubic shape pertaining to the chemical name of a given element, said puzzle board having
shape for accommodating an array of said cubes that reflects the configuration of said periodic
chart.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
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