The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board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 JAMES R. FORE SR., JAMES R. FORE, II and
LLOYD YOUNG
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Appeal No. 2006-0125
Application 10/086,316
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, LEVY and NAPPI, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 10 through 19
and 21 through 24. Claims 1 through 9 stand allowed. Claim 20, the only other claim in the
application, has been indicated to contain allowable subject matter, but currently stands
objected to as being dependent from a rejected base claim.
Appellants’ invention relates to a pay-out tube used in conjunction with cable boxes and
containers for facilitating the feeding of cable, wire and other rope-like materials from such
boxes and containers, and to a method of securing an end of a cable exteriorly of a cable
container housing a cable winding. Independent claims 10, 14, 17 and 22 are representative
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