Ex Parte Lowry - 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            written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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                       
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
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                              Ex parte ROBERT K. LOWRY                                
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                                Appeal No. 2005-2489                                  
                             Application No. 09/949,736                               
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                                      ON BRIEF                                        
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          Before MCQUADE, PAK and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.                 
          PAK, Administrative Patent Judge.                                           
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                   
               This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s refusal            
          to allow claims 19 through 38 and 40 through 44.  Claim 39, the             
          only other claim pending in the present application, was                    
          indicated to be allowable “if rewritten independent form                    
          including all of the limitations of the base claim and any                  



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