Ex Parte Oestreicher et al - 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                               for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 RALF OESTREICHER et al.                                   
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                                          Appeal No. 2006-0022                                        
                                        Application No. 09/810,943                                    
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                                               ON BRIEF                                               
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            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.                                                                        









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