       NOTE: This disposition is nonprecedential.


United States Court of Appeals
    for the Federal Circuit
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  IN RE KNUT ELBERS, CHRISTIANE MEYER,
MARTINA VON FREYBURG, AND GREGOR MEYERS
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                      2011-1286
                (Serial No. 11/524,356)
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    Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark
Office, Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
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                     JUDGMENT
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    JULIE A. SCOTT, Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica,
Inc., of St. Joseph, Missouri, argued for appellant.

    FARHEENA Y. RASHEED, Associate Solicitor, United
States Patent and Trademark Office, of Alexandria,
Virginia, argued for appellee. With him on the brief were
RAYMOND T. CHEN, Solicitor, and ROBERT J. MCMANUS,
Associate Solicitor.
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THIS CAUSE having been heard and considered, it is

ORDERED and ADJUDGED:

    PER CURIAM (RADER, Chief Judge, O’MALLEY and REYNA,
Circuit Judges).

           AFFIRMED. See Fed. Cir. R. 36.

                      ENTERED BY ORDER OF THE COURT



 January 17, 2012          /s/ Jan Horbaly
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