Appeal No. 1997-2021 Application No. 08/500,231 the request is denied. Appellant has long lost any rights accorded to him under the rules of practice to seek any relief for any alleged errors in these earlier decisions on appeal. Of those first three appeals taken by appellant during earlier prosecution of parent applications of this application, a request for reconsid-eration was filed in a timely manner only with respect to the second appeal in Appeal No. 92-1594 which request was denied on June 18, 1992. We are unaware of any provision of 37 CFR § 1.197 which permits appellant to seek a reconsideration of prior appeals after the time set therefor has expired. We have considered appellant's positions set forth between paragraphs 27 and 44 of the request for rehearing. It is believed that the discussion at pages 4 and 5 of our original opinion in effect basically still answers the urgings for reconsideration set forth in the above noted paragraphs. For emphasis, we repeat again the essence of the statement we 3Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007