The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 ________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ________________ Ex parte ROBERT B. LUBBERTS and WATSON L. ROBBINS ________________ Appeal 2006-2908 Application 10/370,840 Technology Center 1700 ________________ Decided: October 31, 2006 ________________ Before KIMLIN, WARREN, and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges. KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4, 7, and 9-12. Claim 1 is illustrative: 1. A bow deflector device for controlling a flow velocity gradient of a feed stream of plastic batch material to be provided to an extrusion die, comprising:Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007