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                   Appeal No. 95-0878                                                                                                                                 
                   Application 07/921,820                                                                                                                             

                             37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant, WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM THE                                                           

                   DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise one of the following two options with respect to the new                                                       

                   ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (§ 1.197(c)) as to the rejected claims:                                                    

                                       (1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims so rejected or a showing of                                                  
                             facts relating to the claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter reconsidered by the                                               
                             examiner, in which event the application will be remanded to the examiner. . . .                                                         

                                       (2) Request that the application be reheard under § 1.197(b) by the Board of                                                   
                             Patent Appeals and Interferences upon the same record. . . .                                                                             

                             No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may be extended                                           

                   under 37 CFR § 1.136(a).                                                                                                                           

                                                                          REVERSED                                                                                    
                                                                                and                                                                                   
                                                                      37 CFR § 1.196(b)                                                                               




                                              BRADLEY R. GARRIS                        )                                                                              
                                              Administrative Patent Judge                        )                                                                    
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                                              CAMERON WEIFFENBACH                                )         BOARD OF PATENT                                            
                                              Administrative Patent Judge                        )         APPEALS AND                                                
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                                              TERRY J. OWENS                                     )                                                                    
                                              Administrative Patent Judge                        )                                                                    


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