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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 DIANA RODRIGUEZ, STEVE A, FONTAINE,
LAURENT POTARD, JENNIFER A. BATTEY,
ANDREW D. HOFLICH, AARON I. BLANKENSHIP,
JAMES M. CARLSON and KEVIN L. STRAUSE
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Appeal No. 2005-1942
Application No. 10/173,938
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ON BRIEF
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Before THOMAS, LEVY, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.
LEVY, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1-311, which are all of the claims pending in
this application.
We affirm-in-part.
1 We observe that claim 22 depends from claim 23 and that claim 23
depends from claim 22. We consider this a formal matter that can be addressed
by the examiner subsequent to the appeal.
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