The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding
precedent of the Board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 ARTHUR A. KEY, JEFFREY JOHN THOMAS
MATTHEW RICHARD GLEISER and
ALFRED D. NAPOLITANO, JR.
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Appeal No. 2006-0617
Application 10/209,887
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ON BRIEF
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Before FRANKFORT, OWENS and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 8.
Claims 9 through 13, the only other claims remaining in the application, have been
withdrawn from further consideration.
Subsequent to the final rejection, the examiner has withdrawn rejections of claims 1
through 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph; claims 1 through 4 and 6 through 8
under 35 U.S.C.
§ 102(b) based on Nemoto (5,927,813); and claim 5 under 35 U.S.C.
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