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            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                   for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 32         
                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                       
                                      ____________                                     
                           BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                          
                                   AND INTERFERENCES                                   
                                      ____________                                     
                               Ex parte MASAYOSHI IKEDA                                
                                      ____________                                     
                                  Appeal No. 2001-1512                                 
                              Application No. 09/273,5411                              
                                      ____________                                     
                                  HEARD: JUNE 11, 2002                                 
                                      ____________                                     
          Before KRASS, BARRETT, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.             
          SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                         


                                   DECISION ON APPEAL                                  
               This is a decision on appeal from the Examiner’s final                  
          rejection of claims 4 and 5, which are all of the claims pending             
          in this application.                                                         
               We reverse.                                                             




               1  Application for patent filed March 22, 1999, which is a divisional of
          Application 08/976,041, filed November 21, 1997, now abandoned, which claims 
          the foreign filing priority benefit under 35 U.S.C. § 119 of Japanese        
          Application No. 09-54116, filed February 21, 1997.                           




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