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publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.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
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte CHENGGANG XIE
and
DEAN J. EICHMAN
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Appeal No. 1998-1746
Application No. 08/427,462
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ON BRIEF
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Before CAROFF, KIMLIN, and TIMM, Administrative Patent Judges.
CAROFF, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This decision on appeal relates to the final rejection of
claims 1-13. Claims 14-21, all the other pending claims in
appellants' application, stand withdrawn from consideration as
being drawn to a non-elected invention pursuant to a
restriction requirement (Paper No. 3). Therefore, claims 14-
21 are not before us for consideration.
The claims on appeal relate to a surface texturing
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