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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 30 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte HANS W. BLECKMANN, HEINZ LORECK, MICHAEL ZYDEK, WOLFGANG FEY and PETER JONES __________ Appeal No. 1998-0711 Application 07/989,027 ___________ ON BRIEF ___________ Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT and LALL, Administrative Patent Judges. JERRY SMITH, Administrative Patent Judge. This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134 from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-5, 7-12, 14 and 15, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application. An amendment after final rejection was filed on July 1, 1996 and was approved for entry by the examiner. The disclosed invention pertains to a circuit 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007