Ex Parte Yundt-Pacheco - 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               was not written for publication and is not binding precedent           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                       
                                                                                     
                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                           
                                  AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                                                                     
                           Ex parte JOHN C. YUNDT-PACHECO                             
                                                                                     
                                Appeal No. 2006-0558                                  
                               Application 09/800,113                                 
                                                                                     
                                      ON BRIEF                                        
                                                                                     

          Before THOMAS, LEVY, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent                 
          Judges.                                                                     
          THOMAS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                        


                                  DECISION ON APPEAL                                  

               Appellant has appealed to the Board from the examiner having           
          twice rejected claims 1 through 8 on appeal.                                
               Representative independent claim 1 is reproduced below:                
               1.  In a computer system having a laboratory information               
          system application program, an operating system and a printer               
          driver, a method for formatting data from a group of laboratory             
          instruments, the method comprising:                                         
               obtaining data indicative of outputs of the group of                   
          laboratory instruments by the laboratory information system                 
          application program;                                                        







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