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journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the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. 16
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte SERGE M. TAVERNIER, ROBERT F. JANSSENS,
LEO B. ALAERTS and HANS K. VAN CAUWENBERGHE
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Appeal No. 96-3803
Application No. 08/128,245
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HEARD: February 10, 2000
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Before KIMLIN, JOHN D. SMITH, and GARRIS, Administrative
Patent Judges.
KIMLIN, Administrative Patent Judge.
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 10-
17, all the claims remaining in the present application. A
copy of illustrative claim 10 is appended to this decision.
In the rejection of the appealed claims, the examiner
relies upon the following references:
Imai et al. (Imai) 4,741,984 May 03, 1988
Aita 4,868,085 Sep. 19,
1989
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