Ex parte KOSTEK 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              was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not                                             
              binding precedent of the Board.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. 18                        
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                  
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                    
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                         
                                                   _____________                                                          
                                Ex parte SERGIO KOSTEK, SHU-KONG CHANG,                                                   
                            GORDON McDANIEL, THOMAS PLONA, CURTIS RANDALL,                                                
                            JEAN-PIERRE MASSON, JAMES C. MAYES and KAI HSU                                                
                                                   _____________                                                          
                                                Appeal No. 96-4183                                                        
                                            Application 08/235,6251                                                       
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                                              HEARD: April 7, 1997                                                        
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              Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, STAAB and                                            
              CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.                                                                     
              CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                      
                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                        
                           This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s                                           
              final rejection of claims 7, 10-16 and 19-24, which are all the                                             



                     1Application for patent filed April 29, 1994.  According to                                          
              appellants, this application is a continuation-in-part of                                                   
              application 07/839,969 filed February 20, 1992, which is a                                                  
              continuation-in-part of application 07/548,169 filed July 5,                                                
              1990, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of                                                     
              application 07/288,742 filed December 22, 1988, now abandoned.                                              
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