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today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board.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 GERALD R. KOEFELDA, WILLIAM P. APPS,
ROGER S. HSU and CYRIL J. BALFE
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Appeal No. 2005-1557
Application 09/954,604
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN. OWENS and JEFFREY T. SMITH, 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 14 through 18, 20 through 25 and 28 through 43, all of the claims in the
application.
Claims 14 and 38 illustrates appellants’ invention of a nestable pallet, and are
representative of the claims on appeal:
14. A nestable pallet comprising:
a deck member having an upper surface;
a plurality of integrally formed peripheral foot portions extending downwardly from the
deck member and disposed about the periphery of the deck member, wherein each of the
peripheral foot portions has an outwardly directed recess extending to the upper surface of the
deck member for receiving a corresponding foot portion of a like pallet disposed thereabove
when in a nested orientation; and
a non-peripheral foot portion extending downwardly from the deck member.
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