Appeal No. 95-2603
Application 07/915,871
McKelvey, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, concurring.
I concur fully with, and have signed, the opinion of the
merits panel. I write separately to place on the record a
recurring problem faced by the Board of Patent Appeals and
Interferences in resolving ex parte appeals which come before
it. The recurring problem is the citation and reliance by
examiners on abstracts, without citation and reliance on the
underlying scientific article.
At the conclusion of Fiscal Year 1997, the board had an
ex parte backlog of about 9200 ex parte appeals. It thus
becomes imperative for the efficient administration of justice
with respect to ex parte appeals before this board that the
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