Appeal No. 96-0616 Application 08/036,249 of claim 3 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over Hori in view of Kuwahara and Kitagawa. However, the rejection of claim 8 under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as unpatentable over Kuwahara is affirmed. Accordingly, the decision of the examiner to reject claims 2, 3 and 8 through 10 is affirmed-in-part. No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may be extended under 37 CFR § 1.136(a). AFFIRMED-IN-PART JAMES M. MEISTER ) Administrative Patent Judge ) ) ) ) ) BOARD OF PATENT CHARLES E. FRANKFORT ) APPEALS Administrative Patent Judge ) AND ) INTERFERENCES ) ) ) JOHN F. GONZALES ) Administrative Patent Judge ) vsh 14Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007