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opinion in support of the decision being entered today (1) was not written for publication in a law journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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.31 UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE __________ BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS AND INTERFERENCES __________ Ex parte YOSHITAKA NAKAMURA, SUMIO YAMADA and SEN MINEMURA __________ Appeal No. 1998-1467 Application 08/598,137 ___________ HEARD: June 8, 2000 ___________ Before JERRY SMITH, BARRETT and FRAHM, Administrative Patent Judges. FRAHM, Administrative Patent Judge. DECISION ON APPEAL Appellants have appealed to the Board from the examiners’ final rejection of claims 9 to 14, which constitute all of the pending claims in the application before us on appeal. Claims 1 to 8 have been canceled. BACKGROUND The subject matter on appeal is directed to a resonator-type surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) 1Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007