Appeal No. 1997-2021 Application No. 08/500,231 was granted various extensions of time to file this request for rehearing. Pages 2 and 3 of our original opinion set forth a brief file history of prosecution of this application as well as its earlier applications. This is the fourth appeal in this application before the Board. As indicated at page 3 of our original decision, after the third decision on appeal, appellant sought relief at Federal District Court in the District of Columbia. The present application was filed at the direction of the presiding judge in that appeal with instructions that declarations of all those who saw the video booth more than one year before the great grandparent application Serial No. 07/170,924, filed on March 21, 1988, should be filed in the present application. Therefore, the critical date in question is March 22, 1987. At the outset, to the extent appellant's request for rehearing urges a reconsideration of the decision rendered in each of the first three appeals, as set forth more or less in the first twenty six paragraphs of the request for rehearing, 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007