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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ASTRID KLEEN, FRANK NAUMANN and HORST HOEFFKES
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Appeal No. 2006-0438
Application No. 10/319,905
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, WALTZ and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-9.
Claims 10-12, the other claims pending in the present
application, have been allowed by the examiner. A copy of
illustrative claim 1 is appended to this decision.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Gast et al. (Gast) 6,146,429 Nov. 14, 2000
Lindenbaum et al. (Lindenbaum) WO 96/25943 Aug. 29, 1996
(published World Intell. Prop. Org. Application)
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