Ex Parte Gass et al - Page 1



                        UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                             
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                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                               
                                          AND INTERFERENCES                                                   
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                           Ex parte STEPHEN F. GASS, DAVID A. FANNING,                                        
                                DAVID S. D'ASCENZO, JOEL F. JENSEN,                                           
                               SUNG H. KIM and ANDREW L. JOHNSTON                                             
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                                             Appeal 2007-2769                                                 
                                           Application 09/929,242                                             
                                          Technology Center 3700                                              
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                                          Decided: August 29, 2007                                            
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                Before WILLIAM F. PATE III, TERRY J. OWENS, and                                               
                JENNIFER D. BAHR,  Administrative Patent Judges.                                              
                WILLIAM F. PATE III, Administrative Patent Judge.                                             
                                          DECISION ON APPEAL                                                  

                                          STATEMENT OF CASE                                                   

                      This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1 and 5.  Claims                   
                19-24 stand allowed.  These are the only claims in the application.                           
                    We have jurisdiction over the appeal pursuant to 35 U.S.C. §§ 6 and 134.                  
                      The claimed invention is a table saw or the like which has a blade for                  
                cutting wood.  The table saw has both a detection system for detecting                        





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