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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 LOTHAR THIELE,
HANS-PETER KOHLSTADT,
and
HANS REINHARD STRIEWSKI
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Appeal No. 2006-0916
Application No. 10/345,711
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ON BRIEF
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Before OWENS, DELMENDO, and JEFFREY T. SMITH, Administrative
Patent Judges.
DELMENDO, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
(2006) from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 20 through
40 (final Office action mailed August 19, 2004), which are all
of the claims pending in the above-identified application.1
1 The parent application (08/983,374 filed on January 16, 1998, now
abandoned) was the subject of a previous appeal (2001-0295) before this
board. In that appeal, we affirmed the examiner’s 35 U.S.C. § 103(a)
rejection of claims 20 through 37 and 39 through 48, which were drawn to
subject matter similar to that of the present appeal, over evidence inclusive
of the same evidence relied upon herein. Ex parte Thiele, Appeal No. 2001-
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