Ex parte LONG et al. - Page 10




               Appeal No. 98-3404                                                                                                  
               Application 08/600,813                                                                                              


               new ground of rejection to avoid termination of proceedings (§ 1.197(c)) as to the rejected claims:                 

                              (1) Submit an appropriate amendment of the claims so rejected or a showing of                        
                       facts relating to the claims so rejected, or both, and have the matter reconsidered by the                  
                       examiner, in which event the application will be remanded to the examiner. . . .                            

                              (2) Request that the application be reheard under § 1.197(b) by the Board of                         
                       Patent Appeals and Interferences upon the same record. . . .                                                


                       No time period for taking any subsequent action in connection with this appeal may be                       

               extended under  37 C.F.R. § 1.136(a).                                                                               



                                               REVERSED, 37 C.F.R. § 1.196(b)                                                      



                                      IAN A. CALVERT                                )                                              
                                     Administrative Patent Judge                   )                                              
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                                      CHARLES  E. FRANKFORT                         )       INTERFERENCES                          
                                      Administrative Patent Judge                   )                                              
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                                      MURRIEL E. CRAWFORD                           )                                              
                                      Administrative Patent Judge                   )                                              


               CEF/dal                                                                                                             


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