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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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 TIRUVETTIPURAM K. THIRUVENGADAM, CHOU-HONG TANN, JUNNING LEE, TIMOTHY MCALLISTER, CESAR COLON, DEREK H. R. BARTON, RONALD BRESLOW and ANANTHA SUDHAKAR __________ Appeal No. 1996-2308 Application 08/179,0081 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before PAK, WARREN and OWENS, Administrative Patent Judges. OWENS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the examiner’s final rejection of 1 Application for patent filed January 7, 1994. According to the appellant, the application is a division of Application 07/962,768, filed October 19, 1992; which is a continuation-in-part of Application PCT/US92/05972, filed July 21, 1992, which is a continuation-in-part of Application 07/734,652, filed July 23, 1991, now abandoned; which is a continuation-in-part of Application 07/734,426, filed July 23, 1991, now abandoned. 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007