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                                 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               journal and (2) is not binding precedent of the Board.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                                                        

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                                       BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS                                                          
                                                    AND INTERFERENCES                                                              
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                     Ex parte YOSHITAKA NAKAMURA, SUMIO YAMADA and SEN MINEMURA                                                    
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                                                     Appeal No. 1998-1467                                                          
                                                     Application 08/598,137                                                        
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                                                     HEARD: June 8, 2000                                                           
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               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)                    

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