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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MARTIN JOHN CALLAHAN and STEPHEN FRANKLIN
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Appeal No. 2005-2632
Application No. 09/768,736
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, McQUADE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection (July 14, 2003) of claims 1 through 20, all of the
claims in the application. Subsequent to the final rejection, the
examiner has withdrawn rejections of claims 1 and 14 under 35
U.S.C. § 102(b) as being anticipated by Volz et al. (US
5,826,505), claims 2, 3 and 17 through 20 under 35 U.S.C.
§ 103(a) as being unpatentable over Volz et al. in view of John
et al. (US 5,165,341), claims 4 through 13, 15 and 16 under
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