Ex parte RAO et al. - Page 21




          Appeal No. 96-3202                                                          
          Application No. 08/183,464                                                  


          affirmance constituting new grounds of rejection under 37 CFR               
          § 1.196(b).                                                                 


               Since at least one rejection of each of the appealed                   
          claims has been affirmed, the decision of the examiner is                   
          affirmed.                                                                   


               Any request for reconsideration or modification of this                
          decision by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences                   
          based upon the same record must be filed within one month from              
          the date of the decision.  37 CFR § 1.197.  Should the                      
          appellants elect to have further prosecution before the                     
          examiner in response to the new rejections under 37 CFR §                   
          1.196(b) by way of amendment or showing of facts, or both, not              
          previously of record, a shortened statutory period for making               
          such response is hereby set to expire two months from the date              
          of this decision.                                                           







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