Appeal No. 98-3125
Application Nos. 08/294,730, 90/003,655, 90/003,826 and
90/004,552
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 3, 5, 6, 9 through 18 and 20 in
this application for the reissue of U.S. Patent No. 5,044,412.
Claims 21 and 22 stand allowed. Claims 4, 7, 8 and 19, the
only other claims remaining in the application, have been
indicated by the examiner to contain allowable subject matter,
but currently stand as objected to until they are rewritten in
independent form. Claims 23 through 28 have been canceled.
As further background, we note that U.S. Patent No. 5,044,412
is also the subject of three Reexamination proceedings, which
proceedings have been merged with the present reissue
application (see Paper Nos. 20 and 21, both mailed April 15,
1997). Those Reexamination proceedings are identified by
Control numbers 90/003,655 (filed December 7, 1994),
90/003,826 (filed May 8, 1995) and 90/004,552 (filed February
12, 1997). This decision jointly applies to the present
reissue application and the three Reexamination proceedings
and will be physically entered into all four of the above-
noted files.
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