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          Appeal No. 1997-1131                                                        
          Application No. 08/395,119                                                  

               As indicated supra, this decision contains a new ground of             
          rejection pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.196(b)(amended effective Dec. 1,           
          1997, by final rule notice, 62 Fed. Reg. 53131, 53197 (Oct. 10,             
          1997), 1203 Off. Gaz. Pat. Office 63, 122 (Oct. 21, 1997)).  37             
          CFR § 1.196(b) provides that, "A new ground of rejection shall              
          not be considered final for purposes of judicial review."                   
               37 CFR § 1.196(b) also provides that the appellant, WITHIN             
          TWO MONTHS FROM THE DATE OF THE DECISION, must exercise one of              
          the following two options with respect to the new ground of                 
          rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (§ 1.197(c)) as to            
          the rejected claims:                                                        
                    (1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims                 
               so rejected or a showing of facts relating to the                      
               claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter                       
               reconsidered by the examiner, in which event the                       
               application will be remanded to the examiner. . . .                    
                    (2) Request that the application be reheard under                 
               § 1.197(b) by the Board of Patent Appeals and                          
               Interferences upon the same record. . . .                              








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