Ex parte RAO et al. - Page 8




          Appeal No. 1998-2623                                                        
          Application No. 08/677,062                                                  


          product-by-process claims 2 and 10.   However, we determine,4                                        
          for reasons noted above, that the examiner has not established              
          that the cited prior art discloses a product that “appears to               
          be either identical with or only slightly different than [the]              
          product claimed in [the] product-by-process claim.”  In re                  
          Fitzgerald, 619 F.2d 67, 70, 205 USPQ 594, 596 (CCPA 1980).                 
                                                                                     






















               In re Fessmann, 489 F.2d 742, 744, 180 USPQ 324, 3264                                                                     
          (CCPA 1974).                                                                
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