Ex Parte SATOH 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                     publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 17                 
                               UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                   
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                                    BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                     
                                                AND INTERFERENCES                                                          
                                                     ____________                                                          
                         Ex parte YOSHIO SATOH, OSAMU IKATA, HIDEMA UCHISIHIBA,                                            
                                    TAKASHI MATSUDA, TOKIHIRO NISHIHARA,                                                   
                                  MITSUO TAKANATSU, and HAJIME TANIGUCHI                                                   
                                                     ____________                                                          
                                                 Appeal No. 2001-2200                                                      
                                               Application No. 09/286,328                                                  
                                                     ____________                                                          
                                               HEARD: January 23, 2002                                                     
                                                     ____________                                                          
              Before JERRY SMITH, LALL, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges.                                     
              BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                    




                                                DECISION ON APPEAL                                                         
                     This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner's final                          
              rejection of claims 1-45, which are all the claims in this application for reissue of U.S.                   
              Patent 5,773,917 ("the '917 patent").                                                                        
                     We affirm-in-part, and enter a new ground of rejection in accordance with 37                          
              CFR § 1.196(b).                                                                                              








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