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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 JAMES M. COULL, JENS J HYLDIG-NIELSEN,
SVEN E. GODTFREDSEN, MARK J. FIANDACA and KYRIAKI STEFANO
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Appeal No. 2006-3207
Application No. 09/565,191
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HEARD:
November 14, 2006
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Before SCHEINER, MILLS, and LINCK, Administrative Patent Judges.
LINCK, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a) of claims 61-82, all of the pending claims in Application No.
09/565,191, filed May 5, 2000.1 We reverse.
BACKGROUND
The field of the claimed invention is “probe based nucleic acid sequence
detection, quantitation and analysis.” Specification at 1. According to the specification:
1 This application claims priority to December 4, 1996 and has been assigned to Boston
Probes, Inc. According to Appellants, Boston Probes is wholly owned by Applera
Corporation. Appellants’ Brief on Appeal (hereafter “Br.”) 2.
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