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for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 29
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte AKIRA TANAKA and MASAMICHI HOSHI
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Appeal No. 1998-0549
Application No. 08/661,711
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ON BRIEF
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Before COHEN, ABRAMS, and STAAB, Administrative Patent Judges.
ABRAMS, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1, 2 and
10. Claims 3-7 and 11 have been withdrawn by the examiner as being directed to a
non-elected species of the invention, and claims 8 and 9 have been canceled.
We REVERSE.
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