The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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. 11 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE _______________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES _______________ Ex parte ROWLAND W. KANNER ______________ Appeal No. 1998-0832 Application 08/496,760 _______________ ON BRIEF _______________ Before CALVERT, GONZALES and JENNIFER D. BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges. CALVERT, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 8 to 12, all the claims remaining in the application. The appealed claims are drawn to a process for forming a tube construction, and are reproduced in the appendix of appellant's brief. The prior art applied in the final rejection is: Uba et al. (Uba) 4,259,419 Mar. 31, 1981 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007