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written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ANNAVARAPU S. MURTY and LISA M. STOIBER
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Appeal No. 2006-0825
Application No. 10/253,333
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ON BRIEF
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Before KIMLIN, PAK and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-32.
Claim 1 is illustrative:
1. A method of preventing contacting surfaces of frozen
dough from sticking together, the method comprising
disposing an anti-stick material on one or more of the
contacting surfaces, the anti-stick material comprising
edible powder having an average particle diameter in the
rang from 5 microns to 160 microns.
The examiner relies upon the following references as
evidence of obviousness:
Matz 3,397,064 Aug. 13, 1968
Reddy 5,626,893 May 6, 1997
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