Ex Parte Leproust et al - Page 1

                               The opinion in support of the decision being entered today                          
                                        is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                                       
                                                  __________                                                       
                                        Ex parte ERIC M. LEPROUST,                                                 
                                  BILL J. PECK and DANIEL B. ROITMAN                                               
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                                               Appeal 2007-2213                                                    
                                            Application 10/355,433                                                 
                                            Technology Center 1600                                                 
                                                  __________                                                       
                                           Decided:  August 20, 2007                                               
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                Before ERIC GRIMES, LORA M. GREEN, and                                                             
                RICHARD M. LEBOVITZ, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                 
                GRIMES, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                               


                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                      
                       This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 involving claims to a method                        
                of making an array.  The Examiner has rejected the claims as obvious.  We                          
                have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).  We affirm.                                              
                                                BACKGROUND                                                         
                       The Specification describes “a method of fabricating an array of                            
                biopolymer probes bound to a surface of a substrate . . . includ[ing]                              
                depositing drops, at least some of which contain probe precursors, onto the                        

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