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and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 42
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YASUMITSU IKEGAMI
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Appeal No. 2003-0053
Application No. 09/142,464
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HEARD: July 16, 2003
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Before RUGGIERO, DIXON, and SAADAT, Administrative Patent Judges.
DIXON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 3-7,
14 and 16-20.1 Claims 8-13 and 21-26 have been withdrawn from consideration.
Claims 2 and 15 have been canceled.
We REVERSE.
1 In the Advisory Action mailed September 27, 2001 (Paper No. 28) the examiner indicated that
the Amendment After Final Rejection filed September 20, 2001 (Paper No. 27, Amendment F) amending
claims 1, 4, 14 and 17 would be entered upon the filing of an Appeal. And yet, the face of the file and the
amendment itself, does not show that this has been done. However, since it appears that the amendment
should have been entered, we will examine the claims as amended in Paper No. 27. Upon return of the
application to the examining corps, this matter should be corrected as appropriate.
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