Appeal No. 1999-0434
Application No. 08/664,257
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 claim:
(1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claim so rejected or a showing
of facts relating to the claim 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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