The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 25 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE ____________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES ____________ Ex parte TOMOSHI HIRAYAMA ____________ Appeal No. 1996-1418 Application No. 08/247,521 ____________ ON BRIEF1 ____________ Before KRASS, GROSS, and BLANKENSHIP, Administrative Patent Judges. GROSS, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1 through 7, which are all of the claims pending in this application. Appellant's invention relates to a character input apparatus which includes a display for displaying characters and corresponding character type identifiers simultaneously. We observe that on August 2, 2000 (paper no. 24), appellant filed a1 waiver of the oral hearing set for September 12, 2000.Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007