Ex Parte Caudle - Page 1



                     UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                      
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                         BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                         
                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                  
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                             Ex parte TIMOTHY G. CAUDLE                             
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                                Appeal No. 2006-1481                                
                             Application No. 09/846,714                             
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                                      ON BRIEF                                      
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            Before OWENS, NAPPI and FETTING, Administrative Patent                  
            Judges.                                                                 
            OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                     
                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                 
                 This appeal is from the final rejection of claim 50,               
            which is the only claim pending in the application.  Claims             
            1-49 and 51-55 were cancelled prior to appeal.                          
                                   THE INVENTION                                    
                 The appellant claims a single pouch comprising two                 
            heat sealed lateral edges, each of the two edges comprising             
            a concave surface and a convex surface such that each edge              
            is substantially S-shaped.                                              
            Claim 50:                                                               
                 A single pouch comprising a first lateral edge and a               
            second lateral edge, each of the first and the second                   
            lateral edges comprising a concave surface and a convex                 




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