Paper No. 18 THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION The opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte A. GURURAJ RAO and NANDHA K. BALASUBRAMANIAM ______________ Appeal No. 95-4520 Application 08/038,7611 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before WINTERS and WILLIAM F. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judges, and FRED E. MCKELVEY, Senior Administrative Patent Judge. WILLIAM F. SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the final rejection of claims 1-20, all the claims in the application. Claims 1, 4, 8, 9, 12, 18, 19, and 20 are illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and read as follows: 1Application for patent filed March 24, 1993. According to appellants, this application is a continuation-in-part of Application 07/921,179, filed July 24, 1992. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007