THIS OPINION WAS NOT WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION The opinion in support of the decision entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 11 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________________ Ex parte ALEXANDER SROMIN et al. __________________ Appeal No. 96-1301 Application 08/175,0781 ________________ ON BRIEF ________________ Before HAIRSTON, MARTIN and LEE, Administrative Patent Judges. LEE, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1-5, 7-15, 17-19, 21 and 22. Claims 6, 16 and 20 have been objected to by the examiner as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form. References relied on by the Examiner Hawsey et al. (Hawsey) Patent 4,996,457 Feb. 26, 1991 Takahashi et al. (Takahashi) Patent 4,551,645 Nov. 5, 1985 1 Application for patent filed December 29, 1993.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007