Ex Parte Skinner 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                             for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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 CHARLES E. SKINNER, YUNG K. KIM,                                       
                                     and WILLIAM H. CAMPBELL                                               
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                                          Appeal No. 2006-2710                                             
                                       Application No. 10/458,114                                          
                                         Technology Center 1700                                            
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                                               ON BRIEF                                                    
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               Before ADAMS, GRIMES, and LEBOVITZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                           
               GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                        


                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                 
                      This appeal involves a claim to an alkylated amine functional                        
               macromolecule.  The Examiner has rejected this claim as obvious.  We have                   
               jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 134.  We affirm.                                             
                                            BACKGROUND                                                     
                      Macromolecules include dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers.                        
               “Dendrimers are . . . globular, nano-scale macromolecules consisting of two                 
               or more tree-like dendrons, emanating from a single central atom or atomic                  




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