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for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 13
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte IRFAN F. RAZA and RONALD D. WALTHER
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Appeal No. 98-1457
Application No. 08/530,0061
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ON BRIEF
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Before STAAB, NASE, and CRAWFORD, Administrative Patent Judges.
NASE, Administrative Patent Judge.
STAAB, Administrative Patent Judge, dissenting.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final
rejection of claims 1 through 15, which are all of the claims
pending in this application.2
1Application for patent filed September 19, 1995.
2In the brief (p. 1), the appellants requested that claim
14 be amended. In the answer (p. 2), the examiner noted that
the requested amendment to claim 14 was improper, however, the
examiner indicated that claim 14 has been informally amended
to read as requested by the appellants. We suggest that the
appellants submit a formal amendment to claim 14. Since the
rejection of claim 14 under 35 U.S.C. § 112, second paragraph,
raised in the final rejection was not repeated in the answer,
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