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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board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 JOHN G. DAVIS,
JOSEPH D. POOLE,
KRIS A. SLESINGER AND
MICHAEL C. WELLER
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Appeal No. 2005-2558
Application 10/408,149
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, WALTZ, and FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the
examiner’s final rejection of claims 26-44. A copy of each of
these claims is set forth in the attached appendix.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of unpatentability:
Mase et al. (Mase) 5,261,156 Nov. 16, 1993
Bearinger et al. (Bearinger) 5,611,884 Mar. 18, 1997
Schar 5,842,273 Dec. 1, 1998
Claims 26-44 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as being
obvious over Schar in view of Bearinger and Mase.
To the extent that appellants provide specific arguments
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