Appeal No. 96-3189
Application 08/396,079
application.
History of Prosecution
The original Application, 07/755,449 ('449 application),
was filed on September 5, 1991, with claims 1 through 23.
There were
two rejections based on prior art, and two substantive
amendments and eventually a notice of allowance was mailed
for claims 1 through 5 and 7 through 23 on August 26, 1993,
claim 6 having been canceled.
Appellants did not pay the issue fee, and instead filed a
file-wrapper-continuation on November 24, 1993, Application
08/158,159 ('159 application). There was no amendment to the
claims, and the same claims were presented again for
examination. The Examiner, on first action, sent on April 6,
1994, a notice of allowance, again allowing all of the same
claims allowed in the '449 application. Again, Appellants did
not pay the issue fee. They instead filed another file-
wrapper-continuation Application 08/271,558 ('588 application)
on July 7, 1994. Again, there was no amendment to the claims,
and exactly the same claims were presented for examination.
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