The opinion in support of the decision being entered
today was not written for publication in a law journal
and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
Ex parte ZHOU YANG, YIN-NIAN LIN,
ZHENYA ZHU and BRIAN G. RISCH
Appeal No. 2003-0365
Application No. 09/280,601
ON BRIEF
Before KIMLIN, OWENS and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
REQUEST FOR REHEARING
Appellants request rehearing and clarification of our
decision of February 25, 2003, wherein we affirmed the examiner's
rejection of claims 116-135 over the judicially created doctrine
of obviousness-type double patenting, as well as the examiner's
rejections under 35 U.S.C. § 112, first and second paragraphs, of
claims 23-58, 80-115, 121, 122, 133, 134 and 135. We did not
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