The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board. Paper No. 39 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte EUGENE A. MIZUSAWA, SUSAN A. ANDERSON, MAHA Y. EL-SAYED, DANIEL R. LEISKE, RICHARD J. WIERSEMA, and CHIHAE YANG __________ Appeal No. 1996-0906 Application 08/110,241 __________ ON BRIEF __________ Before WILLIAM F. SMITH, SPIEGEL, and ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judges. ADAMS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 and 5-25, which are all the claims pending in the application. Claim 11 is illustrative of the subject matter on appeal and is reproduced below: 1 We note appellants’ amendment under 37 CFR § 1.193(b) (Paper No. 33, received December 4, 1995). In this amendment appellants amended claims 1 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007