Ex parte MAHONEY et al. - Page 1




                                  THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION                                                                
                         The opinion in support of the decision being entered                                                                 
                         today (1) was not written for publication in a law                                                                   
                         journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                               
                                                                                                        Paper No. 16                          

                                    UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                 
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                                          BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                  
                                                        AND INTERFERENCES                                                                     
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                  Ex parte ROBERT D. MAHONEY, JIRO KAWAMOTO, RICHARD A. LUNDGARD,                                                             
                           MARK F. SONNENSCHEIN, HAWK S. WAN and H. NELSON BECK                                                               
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                                                        Appeal No. 95-4970                                                                    
                                                Application No. 08/012,8721                                                                   
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                                                                ON BRIEF                                                                      
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                Before KIMLIN, GARRIS and PAK, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                  
                KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                          

                                                        DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                    
                         This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-21                                                            
                and 23-39, all the claims remaining in the present application.                                                               
                Claim 1 is illustrative:                                                                                                      


                         1Application for patent filed February 3, 1993.  According                                                           
                to appellants, this application is a continuation-in-part of                                                                  
                Application No. 07/746,756, filed August 19, 1991, now U.S.                                                                   
                Patent No. 5,246,647, issued September 21, 1993; which is a                                                                   
                continuation-in-part of Application No. 07/329,666, filed                                                                     
                March 28, 1989, now U.S. Patent No. 5,043,112, issued                                                                         
                August 27, 1991.                                                                                                              
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