Ex Parte Gingras et al - Page 1




                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                          Ex parte BRIAN JAMES GINGRAS et al.                         
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                              Appeal No. 2006-0111                                    
                    Application 09/900,746                                            
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                                       ON APPEAL                                      
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          Before PAK, OWENS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                  
          WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         
               DECISION ON APPEAL                                                     
               This is a decision on an appeal from the primary examiner’s            
          final rejection of claims 1 through 7 and 9 through 48.  Claims 49          
          through 62, the remaining claims pending in this application, stand         
          withdrawn from further consideration as directed to a non-elected           
          invention (Brief, page 3).  We have jurisdiction pursuant to 35             
          U.S.C. § 134.                                                               
               According to appellants, the invention is directed to a method         
          for making wet rolls which includes applying a wetting solution to a        
          web of material, breaking the wet web, and winding the wet web into         
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