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journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 66
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte YUKIHISA TAKEUCHI, KOJI KIMURA and MASATO KOMAZAWA
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Appeal No. 1997-3667
Application 08/384,469
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Before KRASS, RUGGIERO and FRAHM, Administrative Patent Judges.
FRAHM, Administrative Patent Judge.
ON REQUEST FOR REHEARING
In a Paper filed March 16, 2000, appellants request that we reconsider our decision of
February 16, 2000, wherein we affirmed the examiner’s decision rejecting claims 1 to 3, 6 to 8, 11, 12,
and 16 to 19. Specifically, appellants contest the decision as to the obviousness of the claimed
invention, a piezoelectric (P/E) actuator having a pre-sintered substrate which is laminated without the
use of adhesive, under 35 U.S.C. § 103 over the GB’ 647 reference and the JP ‘399 reference.
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