Ex parte MIZUSAWA et al. - Page 1




                        The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for                      
                                publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.                                      

                                                                                           Paper No. 39                     

                                UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                      
                                                 AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
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                                           Ex parte EUGENE A. MIZUSAWA,                                                     
                                     SUSAN A. ANDERSON, MAHA Y. EL-SAYED,                                                   
                          DANIEL R. LEISKE, RICHARD J. WIERSEMA, and CHIHAE YANG                                            
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                                                 Appeal No. 1996-0906                                                       
                                                 Application 08/110,241                                                     
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                                                        ON BRIEF                                                            
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                  Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, SPIEGEL, and ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judges.                                
                  ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                       

                                                 DECISION ON APPEAL                                                         

                         This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s                         
                  final rejection of claims 1 and 5-25, which are all the claims pending in the                             
                  application.                                                                                              
                         Claim 11 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced                         
                  below:                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                            
                  1 We note appellants’ amendment under 37 CFR  § 1.193(b) (Paper No. 33,                                   
                  received December 4, 1995).  In this amendment appellants amended claims     1                            

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