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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 28 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte LEE A. CARMAN and SHUYUAN LIU __________ Appeal No. 1996-3472 Application 08/192,088 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before PAK, OWENS and WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judges. WALTZ, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s final rejection of claims 1 through 5 and 7. Claim 6 is the only remaining claim in this application and has been objected to by the examiner as depending on a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims (Answer, page 1). 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007