Appeal No. 2000-0528
Application No. 09/209,702
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant, WITHIN TWO MONTHS FROM
THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise one of the following two options with respect
to the new ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (§ 1.197(c)) as to the
rejected claims:
(1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims so rejected or a
showing of facts relating to the claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter
reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the application will be remanded
to the examiner. . . .
(2) Request that the application be reheard under § 1.197(b) by the Board
of Patent Appeals and Interferences upon the same record. . . .
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