Appeal No. 97-2488
Application 08/163,202
COHEN, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 22
and 37 through 42. Based upon the application file record of
pending and canceled claims, these claims constitute all of the
claims remaining in the application.2
Appellants’ invention pertains to a process for manu-
facturing an electrical interconnect structure and to a process
for manufacturing an electrical assembly. An understanding
2We are aware of the circumstances surrounding claim 30, a
claim canceled pursuant to appellants’ directive to do so (page 5
of Paper No. 7). We note that appellants’ directive for
cancellation encompassed claims 23 through 29, which cancellation
is not disputed by appellants. Thus, claim 30 is not pending,
nor finally rejected, as indicated on page 1 of the amended
appeal brief (Paper No. 22). The cover sheet of the final
rejection (Paper No. 8) indicates that claim 30 was canceled, and
no rejection of claim 30 appears in the body of the final
rejection. The Notice of Appeal (Paper No. 9) does not refer to
claim 30. While appellants view the cancellation of claim 30 as
an obvious typographical error (reply brief, page 2), this matter
nevertheless is one that can only appropriately be resolved
during any further prosecution before the examiner.
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