UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CARL T. WITTWER
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Appeal 2007-0319
Application 10/074,169
Technology Center 1600
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Decided: October 31, 2007
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Before TONI R. SCHEINER, LORA M. GREEN, and NANCY J. LINCK,
Administrative Patent Judges.
LINCK, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to an
automated method for detecting and reporting the presence of nucleic acids
using polymerase chain reaction, a fluorescent detecting entity, and a
melting temperature analysis. The Examiner has rejected all the claims
based on two grounds: obviousness-type double patenting and under 35
U.S.C. § 103(a). We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).
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