Ex Parte Wallner et al

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Mar 18, 2013

11986844 (P.T.A.B. Mar. 18, 2013)

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE PATENT TRIAL AND APPEAL BOARD
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Ex parte BARBARA P. WALLNER, BRIAN ERIC SCHWARTZ,
PHILIP B. KOMARNITSKY, GERALD BACHER,
BERNHARD KUTSCHER, and GERHARD RAAB
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Appeal 2013-002661
Application 11/986,844
Technology Center 1600
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Before KIMBERLY R. JORDAN, Division 1 Support Administrator.

ORDER DISMISSING APPEAL
On January 31, 2012, Appellants filed a Notice of Appeal. On March
8, 2013, Appellants filed a communication requesting express abandonment
of the application. The request for express abandonment will be treated as a
request to withdraw the appeal.
Accordingly, the appeal in this application is dismissed.
The application is being returned to the Examiner for further action as
may be appropriate.
Appeal 2013-002661
Application 11/986,844

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