Ex Parte Sorenson et al - Page 1



                  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                         for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 Sorenson et al.                                         
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                                      Appeal No. 2006-1844                                           
                                   Application No. 10/080,292                                        
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                                             ON BRIEF                                                
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              Before PATE, SCHAFER and NAGUMO, Administrative Patent                                 
              Judges.                                                                                
              PATE, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                     

                                       DECISION ON APPEAL                                            
                    This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims                             
              1-12 and 14-24. Claim 13 stands objected to as containing                              
              allowable subject matter but depending from a rejected                                 
              based claim.  These are the only claims in the application.                            
                    The claimed invention is directed to a medical                                   
              infusion device which has a discharge portion that can                                 
              dispense a substantially uniform cylindrical pool of                                   
              treatment fluids at a treatment site in a patient.                                     






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