Appeal No. 1999-0053
Application 08/714,954
action and answer raise the issue of a double patenting
problem between the appealed claims and the claims in U.S.
Patent No. 5,590,625 which matured from parent Application
08/521,530. Since the examiner has never entered a double
patenting rejection in the instant application, this issue is
not before us on appeal. Given the examiner’s concern,
however, we remand the application to the examiner for further
consideration of this matter.
In summary:
a) the decision of the examiner to reject claims 10
through 13 is reversed; and
b) the application is remanded for further consideration
of the double patenting issue raised by the examiner.
6
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007