Ex Parte Hoeg 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                                          is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                                           
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                          Ex parte HANS DAVID HOEG, ERIC LAWRENCE HALE,                                                  
                                           and NATHAN JON SCHARA                                                         
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                                                  Appeal 2007-2314                                                       
                                               Application 10/657,110                                                    
                                              Technology Center 3700                                                     
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                                            Decided: September 6, 2007                                                   
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                 Before DONALD E. ADAMS, ERIC GRIMES, and LORA M. GREEN,                                                 
                 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                             
                 involving a variable-direction-of-view endoscope.  The Examiner has                                     
                 rejected the claims as obvious.  We have jurisdiction under 35 U.S.C. § 6(b).                           
                 We affirm.                                                                                              







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