The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte RALF OESTREICHER et al. ____________ Appeal No. 2006-0022 Application No. 09/810,943 ____________ ON BRIEF ____________ Before FRANKFORT, NASE, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges. NASE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 36 to 55, 61 to 64 and 69 to 72. Claims 56 and 57 have been allowed. Claims 58 to 60, 65 to 68 and 73, which are all of the other claims pending in this application, have been objected to as depending from a non-allowed claim. We AFFIRM-IN-PART.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007