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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 18 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _____________ Ex parte SERGIO KOSTEK, SHU-KONG CHANG, GORDON McDANIEL, THOMAS PLONA, CURTIS RANDALL, JEAN-PIERRE MASSON, JAMES C. MAYES and KAI HSU _____________ Appeal No. 96-4183 Application 08/235,6251 ______________ HEARD: April 7, 1997 _______________ Before McCANDLISH, Senior Administrative Patent Judge, STAAB and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges. CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 7, 10-16 and 19-24, which are all the 1Application for patent filed April 29, 1994. According to appellants, this application is a continuation-in-part of application 07/839,969 filed February 20, 1992, which is a continuation-in-part of application 07/548,169 filed July 5, 1990, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of application 07/288,742 filed December 22, 1988, now abandoned. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007