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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 MERIE L. BELL and DANIEL P. BAGLEY
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Appeal No. 2006-0672
Application No. 10/112,176
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ON BRIEF
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Before WALTZ, TIMM, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, 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 28, which are the only claims pending in this application. We have
jurisdiction pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 134.
According to appellants, the invention is directed to a method of manufacturing
an electrical connector for use in a downhole tool, including placing a dielectric body
around a conductor to form an electrical connector where the dielectric body is
composed of a polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) or a derivative of a PEKK (Brief, page 2).
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