1 The opinion in support of the decision being entered 2 today is not binding precedent of the Board. 3 4 5 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 6 _____________ 7 8 BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS 9 AND INTERFERENCES 10 _____________ 11 12 Ex parte MANOHARPRASAD K. RAO, KWAKU O. PRAKAH-ASANTE, 13 and GARY STEVEN STRUMOLO 14 _____________ 15 16 Appeal No. 2006-2294 17 Application No. 09/683,779 18 Technology Center 3600 19 ______________ 20 21 Decided: August 29, 2007 22 _______________ 23 23 Before TERRY J. OWENS, HUBERT C. LORIN, and DAVID B. WALKER, 24 24 Administrative Patent Judges. 25 26 26 OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. 27 28 29 30 DECISION ON APPEAL 31 The Appellants appeal from a rejection of claims 1-20, which are all of the 32 pending claims. 33 THE INVENTION 34 The Appellants claim a pre-crash sensing system and a method for operating 35 it. Claim 1 is illustrative:Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next
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