Ex parte SHIOTSU et al. - Page 1




                                             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                 publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.                                                            
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                                       UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE                                                                        
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                                             BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                                         
                                                            AND INTERFERENCES                                                                           
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                                       Ex parte NOZOMU SHIOTSU and RIE MATSUBARA                                                                        
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                                                           Appeal No. 98-2805                                                                           
                                                       Application 08/663,8491                                                                          
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                                                                    ON BRIEF                                                                            
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                 Before FRANKFORT, STAAB and NASE, Administrative Patent                                                                                
                 Judges.                                                                                                                                
                 FRANKFORT, Administrative Patent Judge.                                                                                                

                                                           DECISION ON APPEAL                                                                           


                          This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final                                                                        
                 rejection of claims 1, 2, 4 through 12 and 14 through 16.                                                                              
                 Claims 3 and 13, the only other claims remaining in the                                                                                
                 application, have been objected to as being dependent upon a                                                                           
                 rejected base (parent) claim, but have been indicated to be                                                                            


                          1    Application for patent filed June 14, 1996.                                                                              
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