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publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 41
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SHOJI TSUTAKI
and HIROSHIGE YAMAKI
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Appeal No. 96-3612
Application 08/161,8691
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HEARD: August 5, 1999
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Before URYNOWICZ, HAIRSTON and BARRY, Administrative Patent
Judges.
HAIRSTON, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 12
through 19 and 24 through 27. After submission of the brief,
the examiner objected to claims 15 and 19 as being dependent
upon a rejected base claim, and notified appellants that these
claims would be allowable if rewritten in independent form
1 Application for patent filed December 6, 1993. According to appellants, the
application is a continuation of Application 07/808,638, filed December 17, 1991, now
abandoned.
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