Appeal No. 1997-2801
Application 08/364,072
Summary
The obviousness rejection is reversed and the double patenting rejection is moot.
We have entered two new grounds of rejection of claims 1-8 under the provisions of 37
CFR § 1.196(b).
Time Period For Response
This decision contains a new ground of rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)
(amended effective Dec. 1, 1997, by final rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53,131, 53,197 (Oct.
10, 1997), 1203 Off. Gaz. Pat. & Trademark Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)). 37 CFR §
1.196(b) provides that, “A new ground of rejection shall not be considered final for
purposes of judicial review.”
37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellants, 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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