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was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of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. 22
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte MASASHI OHARA
and EIJI TAKIGUCHI
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Appeal No. 1997-2928
Application 08/320,781
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ON BRIEF
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Before WARREN, WALTZ and KRATZ, Administrative Patent Judges.
WARREN, Administrative Patent Judge.
Decision on Appeal and Opinion
This is an appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the decision of the examiner finally rejecting
claims 2 through 8 and 10, which are all of the claims in the application.1
We have carefully considered the record before us, and based thereon, find that we cannot sustain the
ground of rejection of the appealed claims under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over JA 62-283001 (Kawaguchi et
al.) in view of GB 2 150 509 (Kawabata et al.) and JA 63-90402 (Iwafune et al.).2 We agree with the
1 See specification, pages 20-21, and the amendment of November 15, 1995 (Paper No. 13).
2 The references relied on by the examiner are listed at page 3 of the answer.
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